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In this video, you will learn how to read the contents of a text files via Python.

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Again, we use the with methods and again we use that open methods.

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And again, we supply the path to the file we want to reads.

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So this should be an existing file.

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Otherwise, you will get an error.

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Now, previously we use W, which meant we opened the file for writing the song We use all.

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S file, so file is a variable that has.

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The final object created by this function and then filed dozens of reads reads, is the methods, but

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what do we want to do with this train?

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Because this outputs a string.

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The string is the contents of the text file.

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What you want to do with that depends on your project purpose.

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Do you want to merge the text of multiple text files?

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Then you will use to each text in a variable or, you know, list and then you merge the list?

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We're going to do that.

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And but for this purpose, let's just talk this to a content variable.

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And then once you're done with that, you can exit the block.

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So you can indent and then maybe print content to see what we get.

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Run.

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And this is the output, so that is the text.

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So that is the contents of the text file here.

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Now, in some places, you will see that this or mode is not included and you've got to run this code

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and you get the same articles.

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That is because by default, the modes of this function is set to order.

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So you can just admit that argument and it will work the same.

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But I do recommend it to include the arguments because it makes the codes more more readable, more

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explicit.

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You know that you have opened the file for reading.

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So it improves readability of the codes.

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So that is how to read the contents of the file.

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Previously, we worked on writing the contents inside the file.

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This was a body reading.

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Now we are ready to do all kinds of file manipulations using the open function.

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So you'll practice this in the following videos.

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See you in the next one.