<marc.wyburn at googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:1161948531.098283.162950 at b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> myfile_content is an object and you have only opened the file. Python
> doesn't yet know whether you want to read it, copy it etc.
>> to read it try
>> text = myfile_content.readlines()
> print text
>> this should be in most tutorials
>
readlines() will give you the file content as a list of newline-terminated
strings. If you just want the whole file in one big string do:
text = myfile_content.read()
And, yes, you should wade through some of the tutorials, this is basic
material.
-- Paul
