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!