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 frequently do something like this when I need to get a few lines surrounding something I've grepped in a log file:

$ grep -n "xlrd" requirements.txt | awk -F ":" '{print $1}'
54

$ python -c "with open('requirements.txt') as file: print ''.join(file.readlines()[52:55])"
wsgiref==0.1.2
xlrd==0.9.2
xlwt==0.7.5