pycbc: A Python interface to the Christmas Bird Count database

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def readPassword(fileName):
    '''Read a password from a named file

      [ fileName is a string naming a readable file ->
          return the first line of that file, stripped ]
    '''
    passFile = file(fileName)
    password = passFile.readline().strip()
    passFile.close()
    return password