Question

I am having trouble trying to figure out how to import text from a text file easily or at least a memorable method. I am trying to make a program that insults the user (for school), that brings in a word/s from one text file, adds another word/s from the second file and the final word/s from the third text file…

I am having trouble finding a way of coding to do this…I have the random number up and running to pick the text I just need to know how to access strings or text in a text file.

Answer 1

The easiest way is to use the with statement. It takes care of closing the file for you.

with open("file.txt") as f:
    for line in f:
        # do something with line

Or read the data into directly into a list:

with open("file.txt") as f:
    lines = list(f)
# do something with lines