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Python Programming

(File Handling)

Hyuntae Cho
Dept. of Digital Content
Tongmyong University
Python File Open
• File handling is an important part of any web application.

• Python has several functions for creating, reading, updating, and


deleting files.

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File Handling
• The key function for working with files in Python is the open()
function.
• The open() function takes two parameters; filename, and mode.

• There are four different methods (modes) for opening a file:

• In addition you can specify if the file should be handled as binary or


text mode

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Syntax
• To open a file for reading it is enough to specify the name of the file:

• The code above is the same as:

Because "r" for read, and "t" for text are the default values, you do not need to specify them.

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Open a File
• Assume we have the following file, located in the same folder as
Python:

• To open the file, use the built-in open() function.


• The open() function returns a file object, which has a read() method
for reading the content of the file:

• If the file is located in a different location, you will have to specify


the file path, like this:

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Read Only Parts of the File
• By default the read() method returns the whole text, but you can also
specify how many characters you want to return:

• Example
– Return the 5 first characters of the file:

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Read Lines
• You can return one line by using the readline() method:
• Read one line of the file:

• By calling readline() two times, you can read the two first lines:

• By looping through the lines of the file, you can read the whole file,
line by line:

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Close Files
• It is a good practice to always close the file when you are done with
it.

• Example
– Close the file when you are finish with it:

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Write to an Existing File
• To write to an existing file, you must add a parameter to the open()
function:

• "a" - Append - will append to the end of the file

• "w" - Write - will overwrite any existing content

• Example
– Open the file "demofile2.txt" and append content to the file:

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Write to an Existing File
• Example
– Open the file "demofile3.txt" and overwrite the content:

Note: the "w" method will overwrite the entire file.

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Create a New File
• To create a new file in Python, use the open() method, with one of
the following parameters:

• "x" - Create - will create a file, returns an error if the file exist

• "a" - Append - will create a file if the specified file does not exist

• "w" - Write - will create a file if the specified file does not exist

• Example
– Create a file called "myfile.txt":
Result: a new empty file is created!

– Create a new file if it does not exist:

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Delete a New File
• To delete a file, you must import the OS module, and run its
os.remove() function:

• Example
– Remove the file "demofile.txt":

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Check if File exist:
• To avoid getting an error, you might want to check if the file exists
before you try to delete it:

• Example
– Check if file exists, then delete it:

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Delete Folder
• To delete an entire folder, use the os.rmdir() method:
• Example
• Remove the folder "myfolder":

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Exercise

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Conclusion

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