'Read file' error

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Welcome @birdydan,

This seems to be a bug in the current version of Rhino 7. It was already reported and will probably be fixed in one of the coming updates. Check this out:

Read File component is not working

I’ve now downloaded that public release that is about 5 hours older but that gives the same result here: [Skjermbilde 2020-12-28 kl. 09.51.29] I know - I’ve answered and tested in that other thread as well. David is not the developer on the Mac. I’ve asked a different developer to take a look and he will be back in the office in January. -wim

If you want to, you can use my GHPython script that accomplishes the same and has some more functionality. It can be found in the same thread:

Read File component is not working

Yes, here’s a custom GHPython component that I oftentimes use instead of File, because it also has the ability to remove empty lines. Otherwise it does exactly the same stuff and should work in Rhino 7. import Grasshopper as gh import os def read_lines(fpath, empty=True): """Reads the contents of a file line by line. Args: fpath: An absolute path to a file to read empty: By default True to remove empty lines Raises: OSError: '<fpath>' is not a valid fil…