Lesson 06 · 10 min
Files and with
with opens and closes by itself. Reading text — specify the encoding.
with open("notes.txt", encoding="utf-8") as f:, then f.read() or a loop over lines. Leave the with and the file is closed, even if there was an error inside. Without with it's easy to forget close() and hit "too many open files".
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