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I'm reading from a .txt file that has one line of text (YPerson18) I'm wondering if there is a smarter way of writing this code preferably using a for loop.

import os



parent_dir = "../dirfiles"

os.chdir(parent_dir)



file_name = "userdata.txt"

append_mode = "a"

read_mode = "r"



read_file = open(file_name, read_mode)



the_lines = read_file.read(1)

print("Initial of the first name is: {}".format(the_lines))



the_lines = read_file.read(6)

print("The last name is: {}".format(the_lines))



the_lines = read_file.read(8)

print("The age is: {}".format(the_lines))



read_file.close()

How the output should look like:

Initial of the first name is: Y

The last name is: Person

The age is: 18

You could read the whole file into a string variable, then use slice notation to get parts of it.

with read_file = open(file_name, read_mode):

    line = read_file.read().strip()

    initial = line[0]

    last_name = line[1:7]

    age = int(line[7:])