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.. Objectives
.. ----------
-.. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to
-.. 1. Open and read the contents of a file.
-.. #. Read files line by line.
-.. #. Read all the contents of the file at once.
-.. #. Close open files.
+.. At the end of this spoken tutorial, you will be able to:
+.. 1. Open a file.
+.. #. Read the content of the file line by line.
+.. #. Read entire contents of the file at once.
+.. #. Close the file.
.. Prerequisites
.. -------------
@@ -58,8 +58,7 @@ or write) in which it is open. Notice that it is open in read only
mode, here.
We shall first learn to read the whole file into a single
-variable. Later, we shall look at reading it line-by-line. We use
-the ``read`` method of ``f`` to read, all the contents of the file
+variable. We use the ``read`` method of ``f`` to read, all the contents of the file
into the variable ``pend``.
::
@@ -134,7 +133,7 @@ the file line-wise and print each of the lines.
for line in f:
print line
-As we already know, ``line`` is variable, sometimes called the loop
+``line`` is variable, sometimes called the loop
variable, and it is not a keyword. We could have used any other
variable name, but ``line`` seems meaningful enough.