I am currently reading "Learn Python the hard way" and have reached chapter 16.
I can't seem to print the contents of the file after writing to it. It simply prints nothing.
from sys import argv
script, filename = argv print "We are going to erase the contents of %s" % filename print "If you don't want that to happen press Ctrl-C"
print "If you want to continue press enter"
raw_input("?") print "Opening the file..." target = open(filename, "w")
print "Truncating the file..." target.truncate()
print "Now i am going to ask you for 3 lines"
line_1 = raw_input("Line 1: ")
line_2 = raw_input("Line 2: ")
line_3 = raw_input("Line 3: ")
final_write = line_1 + "
" + line_2 + "
" + line_3
print "Now I am going to write the lines to %s" % filename
target.write(final_write)
target.close
print "This is what %s look like now" %filename
txt = open(filename)
x = txt.read() # problem happens here
print x
print "Now closing file"
txt.close
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