On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:15 PM, myles broomes <mylesbroo...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > > I'm trying to code a program that retrieves data from a seperate file but > according to my program, the seperate file is empty when I know it clearly > isn't. It's a txt file and here are its contents: > > 120 > 74 > 57 > 44 > 12 > > I thought that maybe the problem was the code I had written but even when I > try and read from the file in an interactive session in the Python Shell, it > does the same thing. I open it in read mode and assign to a variable like > so: > > scoresFile=open('highScores.txt','r') > > But whenever I try to say read from it: > > scoresFile.read() > > It comes up with a blank string: > > ' ' > > Can anyone help me? > > > Myles Broomes > check your spelling. check that you are in the same directory when your program runs.
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