Definition:
When you use this method in a program, it reads characters from a file.
If you pass a number as a parameter, it reads only that many characters; otherwise, it reads all characters from the file.
Syntax:
file_object.read(size)Example:
file = open("file1.txt", "r")
content = file.read(12)
print(content)
file.close()Suppose file1.txt contains:
Rahul Kumar
Priya SharmaOutput:
Rahul Kumar
PrExercise
Create a file named file1.txt and use the read() method to read the first 5 characters from the file.