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Being able to interact with files is an important skill for any programmer. In this lesson, we’ll learn how to read from and write to files in Python, including both text and binary files.
You can open a file using the built-in open() function. This function returns a file object and is most commonly used with two arguments: open(filename, mode). The mode argument is a string that contains multiple characters representing how you want to open the file.
open()
open(filename, mode)
mode
# Open a file for writing f = open("test.txt", "w") # Always remember to close files f.close()
The most commonly used modes are:
'r'
'w'
'a'
'b'
't'
'+'
You can read from a text file using the read(), readline(), or readlines() methods, and you can write using the write() or writelines() methods.
read()
readline()
readlines()
write()
writelines()
# Writing to a file f = open("test.txt", "w") f.write("Hello, World!") f.close() # Reading from a file f = open("test.txt", "r") content = f.read() f.close() print(content) # Prints "Hello, World!"
You can read from and write to binary files just like text files, but you use the 'b' mode.
# Writing binary data to a file data = bytes(range(5)) f = open("test.bin", "wb") f.write(data) f.close() # Reading binary data from a file f = open("test.bin", "rb") data = f.read() f.close() print(list(data)) # Prints "[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]"
with
Python provides the with statement to make working with files easier and cleaner. It automatically closes the file when you’re done with it.
with open("test.txt", "w") as f: f.write("Hello, World!") with open("test.txt", "r") as f: print(f.read()) # Prints "Hello, World!"
You’ve learned how to work with files in Python, including opening and closing files, reading from and writing to text and binary files, and using the with statement for better file handling.
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