Reading a .DAT file in python?

Question

I am making a basic program that has a quiz with multiple choice answers. I want to access the data from the .DAT file. Here's the basic layout of the .DAT file.

Which sport uses the term LOVE ?
Tennis
Golf
Football
Swimming
A

How can I access each line separately?

Possible duplicate of Reading a binary .dat file as an array — Shihe Zhang
– Shihe Zhang, Commented Aug 21, 2017 at 1:18

mattexx · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-20 16:37:44Z

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for line in open(filename, 'r'):
    item = line.rstrip() # strip off newline and any other trailing whitespace
    ...

For the bonus: Tennis!

answered Aug 20, 2013 at 16:37

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Michael Haywood Over a year ago

Sorry i'm quite new to python. What does the 'r' do? Thanks

mattexx Over a year ago

'r' tells open that you want to open the file as "read" as opposed to write, read binary, etc. see docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#open

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