updated files

Author: bporter97

Files/File.txt

@@ -1,23 +1,12 @@
 Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow
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 of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath
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 borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how
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 abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at
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 it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know
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 not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your
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 gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment,
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 that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
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 now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
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 Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let
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 her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must
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 come; make her laugh at that.

Files/files.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 os.chdir(r'P:\Python Projects\Python-Notes\files') # set's the working directory for the python script:
 # Allows us to open File.txt without having to type the full file path in the open() method
 
-ofile = open("File.txt") # To enable users to gain access to a file, we need to instantiate a variable 
+ofile = open("File.txt", 'r') # To enable users to gain access to a file, we need to instantiate a variable: the 'r' actually sets the file to read mode 
 # and assign it to the open() method, with the file name included in the parenthesis.
 # This doesn't read the file into the program, it more or less "imports" it and allows you to call it later
 # much like importing an additional python module
@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@
 
 # The print() function in python automatically adds a new line after it reads the line from a txt file 
 
-rfile = ofile.read() #reads a file into memory
+rfile = ofile.read() #reads entire file into memory and assigns it to a string variable=
 count = 0
-for i in ofile : 
+for i in rfile : 
     count = count + 1
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-print("there are ", count, " in this excerpt")