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So this is how you open a text file with your favorite text editor reprogram and let me show you how

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to do the same with Python.

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Of course the experience is a bit different.

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It's not about double clicking the file.

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It's about writing code.

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So when you open that file with your text editor what happens is that some object is created in your

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temporary memory off your computer, in a ram.

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So the file was on the hard disk.

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When you open it it's created as some type of object in the RAM.

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Same thing happens with Python.

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In this case you might want to store that object.

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That file object that you're going to create in Python.

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You might want to store it in a variable, let's call it my file.

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The open function is what creates file objects.

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And since it is a function it will get an argument.

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Now this basics that's pi file is in the same directory with the fruits.txt file, please download

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the fruits.txt file which looks like this.

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Then let me split it here.

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You can drag a file on the side here to have two windows on Visual Studio Code editor, but you can do

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that even in other editors.

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I'm sure if you're using other editors, so this file for now that'd be in the same folder with 

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basics

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dot py.

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Once you do that then the input for this function is the path to the file.

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In this case that would be fruits.txt.

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Since the fruits.txt file is in the same directory with 

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basics.py.

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Now to read the contents or fruits.txt in your text editor like we did graphically it just

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about double click in the file and then you see the content on the text editor interface. In Python things

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are a bit more, they have to be a bit more explicit.

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You have to specify what you want to do because this file we have just created a file object.

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If we execute that nothing is going to happen.

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An object is going to be created in temporary memory and when the execution of the program ends the

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object will be deleted from the memory.

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Just like you when you open the text file with the text editor and then you close it the object the

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file object is deleted from RAM, from the temporary memory.

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So if you want to read what you might want to do is print out my file.

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Now my file has a read method.

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So this is the object, the file object which has a read method.

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It doesn't take any arguments.

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So just leave it like that save, execute.

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And here you get the outputs of the file.

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This is how you read a file in Python.