Re: [freedom] Difference between two python file reading statements

[Saifi Khan]

On Sun, 9 Mar 2025, RAGINI wrote:

Hi,

What is the difference between the two statements:

1.
file = open("myfile.txt")
contents = file.read()
print(contents)


2.
with open("myfile.txt") as file:
   contents = file.read()
   print(contents)

The latter is a 'compound' statement!

the 'with' statement allows the execution of
- initialization code
- finalization code
around a block of code

In the example above, when you open() a file you also need to close() the file.

In fact, this is going to be a topic for discussion in the upcoming Python 
deep-dive session.


warm regards
Saifi.