Why doesn't file.read() work the way I want it to?

Question

Python

I have a file status.txtthat contains only one word, for example nothing
Question: why does it open('status.txt', 'w+').read() == 'nothing'return false? And how to fix it?

Answer 1

You are opening the file for writing, not for reading. You need to do something like this:
open('status.txt', 'r').read() == 'nothing'