open read and close a file in 1 line of code

Question

Now I use:

pageHeadSectionFile = open(\'pagehead.section.htm\',\'r\')
output = pageHeadSectionFile.read()
pageHeadSectionFile.close()

But t

Answer 1

I think the most natural way for achieving this is to define a function.

def read(filename):
    f = open(filename, 'r')
    output = f.read()
    f.close()
    return output

Then you can do the following:

output = read('pagehead.section.htm')