Program for reading data from file and displaying onto monitor

In this blogs, we will read data from text file and display onto screen. Text file contain list of city names.

Our filename is test.txt and below is the content of file that we need to read and display it

Create a file handler that points to our text file. Use ‘r’ mode with open function. ‘r’ is for reading content from file

file = open("C:/Users/rohit/Desktop/test.txt",'r')

Use read() method to read data from a file. Below statement will read content from the file and will store it in cities variable

cities = file.read()

Now use print() function to display content of cities variable

print(cities)

Close the file

file.close()

Output

New York
London
Paris
Berlin
Bogota
Tokyo
Stockholm
Mumbai
Sao Paulo
Moscow
Karachi
Singapore
Sydney

Complete Code

file = open("C:/Users/rohit/Desktop/test.txt",'r')
cities = file.read()
print(cities)
file.close()