prevents the close(statement from being executedthe file may never close this may seem trivialbut improperly closed files can cause data to be lost or corrupted and if you call close(too early in your programyou'll find yourself trying to work with closed file ( file you can' access)which leads to more errors it' not always easy to know exactly when you should close filebut with the structure shown herepython will figure that out for you all you have to do is open the file and work with it as desiredtrusting that python will close it automatically when the time is right once we have file object representing pi_digits txtwe use the read(method in the second line of our program to read the entire contents of the file and store it as one long string in contents when we print the value of contentswe get the entire text file back the only difference between this output and the original file is the extra blank line at the end of the output the blank line appears because read(returns an empty string when it reaches the end of the filethis empty string shows up as blank line if you want to remove the extra blank lineyou can use rstrip(in the print statementwith open('pi_digits txt'as file_objectcontents file_object read(print(contents rstrip()recall that python' rstrip(method removesor stripsany whitespace characters from the right side of string now the output matches the contents of the original file exactly file paths when you pass simple filename like pi_digits txt to the open(functionpython looks in the directory where the file that' currently being executed (that isyour py program fileis stored sometimesdepending on how you organize your workthe file you want to open won' be in the same directory as your program file for exampleyou might store your program files in folder called python_workinside python_workyou might have another folder called text_files to distinguish your program files from the text files they're manipulating even though text_files is in python_workjust passing open(the name of file in text_files won' workbecause python will only look in python_work and stop thereit won' go on files and exceptions