what is the fgets() equivalent in Python

Question

I am currently working with file handling in Python. I have problem in copying the string value of the file.

I wanted to copy the string from file and store it to a variable, just like in C

example: this is how we do in C

FILE *fptr = fopen("read.txt", "r");
fgets(charVar, 100, fptr);

where we store the string file to charVar. So is there a fgets() function equivalent to python?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 29 '22 at 04:36

You can pass the limit argument to readline for a file object which would have similar behavior of stopping on a max character or a newline. Example text file:

01234567890123456789
01234567890123456789

with open("test.txt", "r") as f:
    while data := f.readline(8):
        print("line:", data)

Outputs:

line: 01234567
line: 89012345
line: 6789

line: 01234567
line: 89012345
line: 6789

what is the fgets() equivalent in Python

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