How do I print the content of a .txt file in Python?

Question

I\'m very new to programming (obviously) and really advanced computer stuff in general. I\'ve only have basic computer knowledge, so I decided I wanted to learn more. Thus I

Answer 1

with open("filename.txt", "w+") as file:
  for line in file:
    print line

This with statement automatically opens and closes it for you and you can iterate over the lines of the file with a simple for loop

Answer 2

This will give you the contents of a file separated, line-by-line in a list:

with open('xyz.txt') as f_obj:
    f_obj.readlines()

Answer 3

to input a file:

fin = open(filename) #filename should be a string type: e.g filename = 'file.txt'

to output this file you can do:

for element in fin:
    print element 

if the elements are a string you'd better add this before print:

element = element.strip()

strip() remove notations like this: /n