Reading a file gives empty string (Python)

Question

Here is my code:

path = input('Enter file path: ')
with open(path, 'a+') as file
print(file.read())
while True:
add = input('Enter text: ')
file.write(add)
print(file.read())
repeat = input('Do you want to keep writing? ')
if repeat == 'yes':
continue
elif repeat == 'no':
break

I am able to create files and add text to it but reading only gives a blank string.

Answer 1

@James:

He/she provide instruction for reading the file and print the content ( print(file.read() )

@Swapnodip Chakrabarti:

Appart the missing colon ( : ) at end of the 'with' statement line, your code is working for me ( QPython3 / android )... printing the last writen text. If you want to print all the text file, you need to seek at the file begining before printing/reading ( file.seek(0) ), as the read pointer seems to be positionned at file end, and not updated by the write operation. Maybe the behaviour is different on your device/os? If it is, you can try to use the file.tell() method wich return the position in the file, to save the position before writting, and seeking to it after ( before reading )...

Answer 2

@visph Adding file.seek(0) worked. Thanks for pointing that out.