#!/usr/bin/python # printer is a variable name printer = open("test.txt", "w") printer.write(" 123 456 789 \n") printer.write("987 865 \t 432\n") printer.write("garbage\n") printer.close() # print each line in the file twice # the trailing , stops the newline printing after each line, since the read has a newline already for line in open("test.txt", "r"): print "READ 1: ", line, print "READ 2: ", line,