How do I print a .txt file line-by-line?

Question

I am making my first game and want to create a score board within a .txt file, however when I try and print the score board it doesn't work.

with open("Scores.txt", "r") as scores:
        for i in range(len(score.readlines())):
          print(score.readlines(i + 1))

Instead of printing each line of the .txt file as I expected it to instead it just prints []

The contents of the .txt file are:

NAME: AGE: GENDER: SCORE:

I know it's only one line but it should still work shouldn't it?

*Note there are spaces between each word in the .txt file, though Stack Overflow formatting doesn't allow me to show that.

cat Scores.txt to show what is in the txt file. and give an example what you want to print. — tinyhare, Nov 23 '22 at 18:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '22 at 18:43

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Assign the result of score.readlines() to a variable. Then you can loop through it and index it.

with open("Scores.txt", "r") as scores:
    scorelines = scores.readlines()

for line in scorelines:
    print(line)

answered Nov 23 '22 at 18:43

Barmar

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 23 '22 at 18:42

.readlines() reads everything until it reaches the end of the file. Calling it repeatedly will return [] as the file seeker is already at the end.

Try iterating over the file like so:

with open("Scores.txt", "r") as scores:
    for line in scores:
        print(line.rstrip())

How do I print a .txt file line-by-line?

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