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UNIT – 4

Python File Operations & Exception Handling

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

➢ "r" - Read - Default value. Opens a file for reading, error if the file does not exist

➢ "a" - Append - Opens a file for appending, creates the file if it does not exist

➢ "w" - Write - Opens a file for writing, creates the file if it does not exist

➢ "x" - Create - Creates the specified file, returns an error if the file exists

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

➢ "t" - Text - Default value. Text mode

➢ "b" - Binary - Binary mode (e.g. images)

Syntax

➢ To open a file for reading it is enough to specify the name of the file
➢ f = open("demofile.txt")

Open a File on the Server

➢ 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:
Example
➢ f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
➢ print(f.read())
If the file is located in a different location, you will have to specify the file path, like
this

• Example

➢ Open a file on a different location:


➢ f = open("D:\\myfiles\welcome.txt", "r")
➢ print(f.read())

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:


➢ f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
➢ print(f.read(5))

Read Lines

➢ You can return one line by using the readline() method:

➢ Example
➢ Read one line of the file:
➢ f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
➢ print(f.readline())

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

Example

➢ Read two lines of the file:


➢ f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
➢ print(f.readline())
➢ print(f.readline())

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:
➢ f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
➢ print(f.readline())
➢ f.close()
Python File Write

➢ 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:

f = open("demofile2.txt", "a")
f.write("Now the file has more content!")
f.close()

#open and read the file after the appending:


f = open("demofile2.txt", "r")
print(f.read())

• Example

Open the file "demofile3.txt" and overwrite the content:

f = open("demofile3.txt", "w")
f.write("Woops! I have deleted the content!")
f.close()

#open and read the file after the overwriting:


f = open("demofile3.txt", "r")
print(f.read())

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":


➢ f = open("myfile.txt", "x")
➢ Result: a new empty file is created!

• Example

➢ Create a new file if it does not exist:


➢ f = open("myfile.txt", "w")

Delete a File

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

• Example
➢ Remove the file "demofile.txt":
➢ import os
➢ os.remove("demofile.txt")

Delete Folder

➢ To delete an entire folder, use the os.rmdir() method:

• Example
➢ Remove the folder "myfolder":
➢ import os
➢ os.rmdir("myfolder")

Exception Handling

➢ When an error occurs, or exception as we call it, Python will normally stop and generate
an error message.

➢ The try block lets you test a block of code for errors.

➢ The except block lets you handle the error.

➢ The else block lets you execute code when there is no error.

➢ The finally block lets you execute code, regardless of the result of the try- and
except blocks.
• Example

➢ The try block will generate an exception, because x is not defined:


➢ try:
➢ print(x)
➢ except:
➢ print("An exception occurred")

Else

➢ You can use the else keyword to define a block of code to be executed if no errors were
raised

Example

In this example, the try block does not generate any error
try:
print("Hello")
except:
print("Something went wrong")
else:
print("Nothing went wrong")

Finally

➢ The finally block, if specified, will be executed regardless if the try block raises an error or
not.

Example

try:
print(x)
except:
print("Something went wrong")
finally:
print("The 'try except' is finished")

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