title: How to open a text file from my desktop while using python 3.7.1 in Terminal
body: <p>I saved a text file to my desktop named "test.txt" within the file I wrote only my name, David. Then, I opened terminal and opened python 3.7.1 and wrote the following code in attempt to see my name, David, populate:</p>
  
  <pre><code>open("/Users/David/Desktop/test.txt,"r")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I receive the following error message:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how I can avoid this error and have my name, David, read from the test.txt file on my desktop? Or am I going about this completely wrong?</p>