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Reading Files Safely with 'with'
The 'with' statement creates a context manager that ensures a file is properly closed after its block finishes, even if an error occurs. This prevents memory leaks and file corruption.
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# Using the context manager to handle fileswith open("example.txt", "r") as file:content = file.read()print(content)# File is automatically closed here
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with open("example.txt", "r")
Opens the file in read mode ('r') and ensures automatic cleanup.
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file.read()
Reads the entire content of the file into a single string variable.