read the whole file at once

Question

I\'m trying to write a function that gets a path and returns this file\'s content. No error handling needed. I\'ve came up with the following

def read_all_1(         


        

Answer 1

I will say the second one , and yes the file will be closed, think of the with statement like this:

try:
   f = open(filepath)
   
finally:
   f.close()

About your third question no there is no other way that don't involve opening the file.

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A third way can be (without explicitly closing the file):

open(filepath).read()

The file will be closed when the file object will be garbage collected, but IMHO explicit is better than implicit.