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12/31/24, 7:36 AM Python Fundamentals: Python Files Cheatsheet | Codecademy

Cheatsheets / Python Fundamentals

Python Files

Python File Object

A Python file object is created when a file is opened


with the open() function. You can associate this file
object with a variable when you open a file using the
with and as keywords. For example:

with open('somefile.txt') as file

You can then print the content of the file object,


file_object with print() .

print(file_object)

You might see something like this on the output


terminal:
<_io.TextIOWrapper name='somefile.txt' mode='

Python Readline Method

To read only one line instead of multiple lines in a


Python file, use the method .readline() on a file
object that is returned from the open() function.
Every subsequent .readline() will extract the next line
in the file if it exists.

with open('story.txt') as story_o


print(story_object.readline())

will print only the first line in story.txt .

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Parsing JSON files to dictionary

JSON format is used to store key value pairs. Python’s # Use json.load with an opened file
json module allows reading such data format and
object to read the contents into a Python
parsing it to a dictionary. The json.load function takes
a file object as an argument and returns the data in a dictionary.
dictionary format.

# Contents of file.json
# { 'userId': 10 }

import json
with open('file.json') as json_file:
python_dict = json.load(json_file)

print(python_dict.get('userId'))
# Prints 10

Python Append To File

Writing to an opened file with the 'w' flag overwrites


all previous content in the file. To avoid this, we can
append to a file instead. Use the 'a' flag as the second
argument to open() . If a file doesn’t exist, it will be
created for append mode.

with open('shopping.txt', 'a') as


shop.write('Tomatoes, cucumbers

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Python Write To File

By default, a file when opened with open() is only for


reading. A second argument 'r' is passed to it by
default. To write to a file, first open the file with write
permission via the 'w' argument. Then use the
.write() method to write to the file. If the file already
exists, all prior content will be overwritten.

with open('diary.txt','w') as dia


diary.write('Special events for

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Python Readlines Method

Instead of reading the entire content of a file, you can


read a single line at a time. Instead of .read() which
returns a string, call .readlines() to return a list of
strings, each representing an individual line in the file.
Calling this code:

with open('lines.txt') as file_ob


file_data = file_object.readlin
print(file_data)

returns a list of strings in file_data :


['1. Learn Python.\n', '2. Work hard.\n', '3.

Iterating over the list, file_data , and printing it:

for line in file_data:


print(line)

outputs:

1. Learn Python.

2. Work hard.

3. Graduate.

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Class csv.DictWriter

In Python, the csv module implements classes to read # An example of csv.DictWriter


and write tabular data in CSV format. It has a class
import csv
DictWriter which operates like a regular writer but
maps a dictionary onto output rows. The keys of the
dictionary are column names while values are actual with open('companies.csv', 'w') as
data.
csvfile:
The csv.DictWriter constructor takes two arguments.
The first is the open file handler that the CSV is being fieldnames = ['name', 'type']
written to. The second named parameter, writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile,
fieldnames , is a list of field names that the CSV is fieldnames=fieldnames)
going to handle.
writer.writeheader()
writer.writerow({'name': 'Codecademy',
'type': 'Learning'})
writer.writerow({'name': 'Google',
'type': 'Search'})

"""
After running the above code,
companies.csv will contain the following
information:

name,type
Codecademy,Learning
Google,Search
"""

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Python Read Method

After a file is opened with open() returning a file


object, call the .read() method of the file object to
return the entire file content as a Python string.
Executing the following Python code:

with open('mystery.txt') as text_


text_data = text_file.read()
print(text_data)

will produce a string containing the entire content of


the read file:
Mystery solved.
Congratulations!

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