Read from a file

Now we're ready to really build our quote bot. To test things out, we'll read all the quotes from a file and print the first one.

First, you can remove our test quote, the print statement on line 2. You can either comment it out by adding a `#` at the start of the line, or remove it completely.

Next, remove the other comments by deleting `#` from the start of the other four lines to get Python code like this:

```
f = open("quotes.txt")
quotes = f.readlines()
f.close()

print(quotes)
```

Here we are opening the `quotes.txt` file, reading all the lines into a new _variable_ called `quotes`, then closing the file (defined by the variable `f`). Finally, we print out the quotes.

You can run this code and we'll get a dump of _all_ the quotes in the quotes file. That's because Python stored them all in an _array_, which is a single variable that holds a list of values.

## Print the first element of an array

Since we only want one quote, we need to edit our code to print only the first value in the `quotes` array.

In your code, find the print line and add this special modifier `[0]` so that the line now reads:
` print(quotes[0])`

The square brackets tell Python that we want a specific item in the array. Since it starts counting at zero, we've grabbed the first item.

## Comment with the first quote

Run your code and copy the value to your clipboard.

Paste the quote as a comment here and I'll follow up with next steps!

Follow the issue's Python example, using quotes.txt as the input file. Run the program and verify that it prints only the first quote; then paste that quote as a comment as requested.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.