poem = '''\ Programming is fun When the work is done if you wanna make your work also fun: use Python! ''' # Open for 'w'riting f = open('poem.txt', 'w') # Write text to file f.write(poem) # Close the file f.close() # If no mode is specified, # 'r'ead mode is assumed by default f = open('poem.txt') while True: line = f.readline() # Zero length indicates EOF if len(line) == 0: break # The `line` already has a newline # at the end of each line # since it is reading from a file. print line, # close the file f.close()