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Question

[continuation]- second returns the result as zero, why and how do make both read functions work with the same file name?

#code:
myfile=open(r'C:\Users\win8\Documents\Cs Record\trust.txt','r')

#number of lines in the file:
r2=myfile.readlines()
nol=len(r2)
print('The number of lines in trust.txt is',nol)

#size of the file:
r1=myfile.read()
sof=len(r1)
print('The size of trust.txt is',sof,'bytes')

myfile.close()

Answer 1

If you need to re-read a file, you can either close it and re-open it, or seek() it to the beginning.

r2 = myfile.readlines()
nol = len(r2)
print('The number of lines in trust.txt is', nol)

# seek() it to the beginning
myfile.seek(0)

r1 = myfile.read()
sof = len(r1)
print('The size of trust.txt is', sof, 'bytes')

myfile.close()

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/inputoutput.html#methods-of-file-objects

Answer 2

Thanks!, I made it work by closing and opening the file again in the middle but was wondering if there was any other method. The seek() function looks like what I was looking for.