Read a File

Read a File is a reusable Python snippet. Reads the entire file content as a string, handling proper file closure with the `with` statement. The full implementation: # Read entire file with open("file.txt", "r") as f: content = f.read() print(content) # Read line by line with open("file.txt", "r") as f: for line in f: print(line.rstrip()) It belongs to the Built-in Functions area of the standard library. This snippet uses only the Python standard library with no third-party dependencies, so it runs on any modern Python 3 interpreter. Browse more patterns in the snippet library, or paste the code straight into the playground to experiment with it.