</sourceesource><br>Let's take time a moment to review revisit the '''file read operation''' sequence. The following code sequence will open a file, store the contents of a file into a variable, close the file and provide confirmation that the file has been closed:<blockquote><br><span style="font-family:courier;">f = open('data.txt', 'r') # Open file<br>read_data = f.read() # Read from file<br>f.close() # Close file<br>f.closed # Confirm file is closed</span><br><br></blockquote><br>Another way to read data from a file is using the '''with''' looping statement. The advantage by using the ''with'' loop is that the file will automatically close when the data within the file has been completely read<br><br>