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File Handling

Text Files

By Nishan Saliya IIT 1


What is a File?

 When computer store data in hard disk, they are stored in the form of a file
 A computer file can be,
 An audio file
 A video file
 A text file
 Etc.
 Python allows accessing these files and manipulating them

By Nishan Saliya IIT 2


File Access in Python

 Files can be text files or binary files


 Files can be opened with some options such as,
 Read only
 Write only
 Append only
 Read and/or write

By Nishan Saliya IIT 3


Some Text File Open Modes
Modes Details

r Reading only. The file pointer at the BOF

r+ For reading and writing. The file pointer at the BOF


Writing only. If file exists, it’ll be overwritten; If it doesn't a new file will be
w created for writing.
For writing and reading. If file exists, it’ll be overwritten; If it doesn't a new file
w+ will be created for reading and writing.

Appending. The file pointer is at EOF if the file exists. If the file does not exist,
a it creates a new file for writing.

For appending and reading. The file pointer is at EOF if the file exists. If the file
a+ does not exist, it creates a new file for reading and writing.

By Nishan Saliya IIT 4


A Simple File Read You need some
sample text files
to test this!

By Nishan Saliya IIT 5


A Simple File Read (with a Sub Folder)
Based on the system, you
may access Sub folders
with below characters
\
\\
/
//

You need some


sample text files
to test this!

By Nishan Saliya IIT 6


Sample Program to Write to a File

By Nishan Saliya IIT 7


Sample Program to Append a File

By Nishan Saliya IIT 8


Reading a File – Line by Line

By Nishan Saliya IIT 9


Reading a File – Character by Character

By Nishan Saliya IIT 10


Seek a File - Part 1

By Nishan Saliya IIT 11


Seek a File - Part 2

By Nishan Saliya IIT 12


How Seeking is Working (Windows OS)

By Nishan Saliya IIT 13


Extra Note

 CR, LF, and CRLF


 CR – Carriage Return - \r
 Used in old Mac Systems
 LF – Line Feed - \n
 Used in Unix, modrn macOS and Linux
 CRLF - Carriage Return Line Feed - \r\n
 Windows standard

 This will affect the formatting when files are shared among systems!

By Nishan Saliya IIT 14


Reference

 https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_file_handling.asp

By Nishan Saliya IIT 15

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