python - Read username and password from a file

Saturday 28 May 2016

How can i read text, e.g., username and password from a file line-by-line in Python? For example, i can achieve this in shell/bash:

#!/bin/bash

AUTH='/authentication/account.txt'
U=$(sed -n 1p ${AUTH})
P=$(sed -n 2p ${AUTH})

and inside the file /authentication/account.txt are my username and password line-by-line like this:

username
userpass

Answer

You should not be storing unencrypted login details in text files.

However, here is a very simple solution anyway:

f=open("/authentication/account.txt","r")
lines=f.readlines()
username=lines[0]
password=lines[1]
f.close()

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