Question

Python learner. So please excuse me.
I am following: http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/inputoutput.html#reading-and-writing-files

I want to read a file; here is my file:

# cat test 
line1 word1
line2 word2
line3 word3
line4 word4

and here it my code:

>>> f = open ('test')
>>> for line in f:
...     print f
... 
<open file 'test', mode 'r' at 0xb7729180>
<open file 'test', mode 'r' at 0xb7729180>
<open file 'test', mode 'r' at 0xb7729180>
<open file 'test', mode 'r' at 0xb7729180>

How and why i am getting above output? I was hoping that it will print each line per line.
What am I missing here. looking at the link mentioned above, my syntax seems to be OK but the output is not

Thanks.

Answer 1

You are printing the file handle, replace print f with print line:

f = open ('test')
for line in f:
    print line