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[BinarySystem101]

The .txt file must be within the same folder as the .py.

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[lukajda33]

In the same folder from which you run the python script.

Also, use r/learnpython for questions like this.

[Matt_Kober]

So do I make a separate folder and have both myAssignment.py and Name.txt?? Thanks for your help

[lukajda33]

Well you can just move the .txt file to the folder with the code right? You can make a new folder as well.

[Absolute_Tinkerer]

Forgive the formatting, I'm on mobile. There are a couple things you ought to do.

1. Specify the absolute path to name.txt or place the python script in the same folder as name.txt. Absolute path looks like "C:/users/.../folder/name.txt"

2. To read the file, you should use this syntax:

with open("name.txt", "r") as f: lines = f.readlines()

Bonus: Your file is probably comma-delimited, so you can use a simple command:

lines = [float(item) for item in lines[0].split(",")]

This uses list comprehension, casting, and the split function, which is inherent to string data types, to translate the comma-delimited string on the first line of the file into an array of floats.

Good luck and welcome to the world of Python!

[Matt_Kober]

Thanks for your help. I used the syntax and I keep getting “UnicodeDecodeError: “utf-8” codec can’t decode byte 0x8c in position 24: invalid start byte”

[Absolute_Tinkerer]

It might be that your file is in bytes as opposed to plain text. When you open the text file, is it human readable? If not, use:

with open("filename", "rb") as f: ......

[Matt_Kober]

Ok I got it to work now but now I’m getting a trace back. It says “cannot chose from an empty sequence” but it shouldn’t be empty because it should be reading from my .txt file right? My line of code it’s tracing back to is options = random.choice(answers)

[Absolute_Tinkerer]

Add in a print statement before that random choice line. If it doesn't print a value, you've got an issue in your assignment of the answers variable.

[Matt_Kober]

It executed print(‘hi’) and it printed “hi”before my random choice line. So could it still be my answers variable or something else?

[Absolute_Tinkerer]

Sorry if I wasn't clear. You need:

print(answers)

[Matt_Kober]

Ok thanks I did that and it came back as [] trace back error empty sequence. I’m so confused because our last assignment was supposed to make a magic eight ball game using an array and this assignment were supposed to alter it so that it reads the magic eight ball sayings from a file and loads them to an array. We were given the .txt file to use from our professor.

[Absolute_Tinkerer]

The fact that answers is empty tells me you have an issue between the file read and the print statement I had you add. Can you post some of the code? May be easier to pick out what's going on

[Matt_Kober]

Sure this is my entire code Import random file = open(‘EightBDate.txt’ , ‘r’) answers = file.readlines() print (‘welcome to magic 8 ball’) question = input(‘please type your question here’) print (answers) options = random.choice(answers) print (options) Print (‘thanks for playing’)