file handling in python Cheat Sheet

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open() write()

open() ("filename","mode",enconding="UTF-8") write() open method "a" will append to end of file
modes open method "w" will overwrite the entire file

"r" - Read (default) opens a file for reading, error if doesn´t exist file.write("text")

"a" - Append opens a file for appending, creates the file if create a new open method "x" will create a file, error if it exists
doesn´t exist file

"w' - Write opens a file for writing, creates the file if open method "a" will create a file if doesn´t exist
doesn´t exist open method "w" will create a file if doesn´t exist
"x" - Create creates the specified file, error if the file exists writelines() turns iterable object(lists,tuples,dict...) into lines in
"t" - Text (default) Text mode the file

"b" - Binary Binary mode

pointers
"+" - Read and opens a file to read or write
Write mode seek(offset,whence=0)) changes the file position

Examples "r+" "a+b" "w+b" file.seek(4) change the pointer to the 4

file position
read()
[whence=] is optional, 0 0=start of file, 1=current position, 2=
is default file´s end
read() open() must have a read() method before.
file.read() tell() finds the file position

file.read(5) reads the first 5 characters file.tell() returns the file position

readline() close()
file.readline() returns one line of the file
close() always close the file when done
file.readline(5) reads the fist 5 characters of the line file.close()
file.readline() / file.read‐ calling readline two times, reads the two
line() first lines
Modules
readlines() returns a list, each item is a line as
a string import os OS module

for line in file loops through the chars or lines of the file os.rename("oldname.txt", "new_name.txt")

use .strip() to remove "\n" os.remove("file.txt")

os.path.exists("file.txt") or os.path.i‐ returns True or False

sfile()

os.path.getsize("file.txt") return

os.path.getmtime("file.txt") returns a timestamp

os.path.abspath("file.txt") returns Absolute Path

os.getcwd show current

working directory

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Modules (cont)

os.mkdir("new_dir") create new directory in the current dir

os.chdr("dir") change working directory

os.rmdir("dir") removes empty directory / error if there is files

in it

os.listdir return a list of files e subdirectories in the dir

os.path.isdir

os.path.join

import datetime Datetime Module

datetime.date

os.path module https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html

docs

os module docs https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html

datetime module https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html

docs

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