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Using Python I am trying to get the content of a text file to to be variable x and by using a if statement, create a simple password program through the use of user input which is the s variable. However, when I make the user input 1234 which is the same as the text.txt file, the if statement fails and 'Access Denied' is printed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is my code:

print ('Enter Password')
s = input() #goal is to input '1234'
x = open('text.txt','r') #text.txt contains '1234'
print("you typed", s)
if s == x:
 print("Access Granted")
else:
 print("Access Denied") 

In your version, x is a file object. To get the content you need to read it. It's a good idea to strip the whitespace too

print ('Enter Password')
s = input() #goal is to input '1234'
x = open('text.txt','r').read().strip()
print("you typed", s)
if s == x:
 print("Access Granted")
else:
 print("Access Denied") 

But now you have an open file that you can't close (Python will usually do it for you but it's better to start doing these things properly). The usual way would be to use with

print ('Enter Password')
s = input() #goal is to input '1234'

with open('text.txt','r') as fin:
 x = fin.read().strip()
print("you typed", s)
if s == x:
 print("Access Granted")
else:
 print("Access Denied") 

Now the file is closed automatically at the end of the with block (This is called a context manager)

The output of open assigned to variable x will be a file object

Try to print x, you will see something like below

<_io.TextIOWrapper name='text.txt' mode='r' encoding='UTF-8'>

For the content of the file you can use .readline(). It reads one line from file object.
Then you will have a newline at the end to take care of .strip() does the job of removing the newline at the end.

Following code works

print ('Enter Password')
s = input() #goal is to input '1234'
x = open('text.txt', 'r').readline().rstrip() #text.txt contains '1234'
print("you typed", s)
print("file content is", x)
if s == x:
 print("Access Granted")
else:
 print("Access Denied")