Easiest way to read/write a file's content in Python

Question

In Ruby you can read from a file using s = File.read(filename). The shortest and clearest I know in Python is

with open(filename) as f:
    s =          


        

Answer 1

Use pathlib.

Python 3.5 and above:

from pathlib import Path
contents = Path(file_path).read_text()

For lower versions of Python use pathlib2:

$ pip install pathlib2

Then

from pathlib2 import Path
contents = Path(file_path).read_text()

Writing is just as easy:

Path(file_path).write_text('my text')