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Python File Handling Functions

The document discusses file handling in Python. It describes how Python allows reading, writing, and other operations on files by treating files as text or binary. It outlines functions for opening, writing, closing, and deleting files. It also explains the different modes for opening files, such as read, write, and append modes, and provides code examples for reading from and writing to files in these modes. Finally, it discusses closing files using the close() function and deleting files using the os.remove() function.

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Python File Handling Functions

The document discusses file handling in Python. It describes how Python allows reading, writing, and other operations on files by treating files as text or binary. It outlines functions for opening, writing, closing, and deleting files. It also explains the different modes for opening files, such as read, write, and append modes, and provides code examples for reading from and writing to files in these modes. Finally, it discusses closing files using the close() function and deleting files using the os.remove() function.

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Department of Computer Science & Engineering

FILE HANDLING IN PYTHON


SESSION 2023-2024

SUBMITTED BY: SUBMITTED TO:


HIMANSHU SAINI MR. MEGH SINGHAL
2201920100143 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CSE 2nd YEAR CSE DEPARTMENT
FILE HANDLING

File handling in python allows the user to read, write, and other operation on
file. Python treats files directly as text or binary. Each line of code includes a
sequence of characters and they form a text file.

File Handling Functions


1. open()
2. write()
3. close()
4. delete()

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MODES OF FILE OPENING
“r” - (Read) Open 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) It create a new file, error occurs if file already exists.

Syntax

f = open(filename, mode)

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FILE OPENING IN READ MODE
Code

print("Himanshu Saini\n2201920100143")
f = open("Himanshu.txt", "r")
print(f.read())

Output

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FILE OPENING IN WRITE MODE

Code
print("Himanshu Saini\n2201920100143")
f= open("Himanshu.txt","w")
f.write("Now the file has more content!")
f.close()
p= open("Himanshu.txt","r")
print(p.read())

Output

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FILE OPENING IN APPEND MODE

Code
print("Himanshu Saini\n2201920100143")
f = open("Himanshu.txt", "a")
f.write("Now the file has more content!")
f.close()
p = open("Himanshu.txt", "r")
print(p.read())

Output

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FILE CLOSING IN PYTHON

close() function closes the file. It is used at the time when the file is
no longer needed or if it is to be opened in a different file mode.

Syntax
file_object.close()

Code
file1 = open("Himanshu.txt", "r")
file1.close()

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FILE DELETION IN PYTHON

To delete a file, we will have to import the OS module and run its
os.remove() function

Syntax
os.remove(“filename”)

Code
import os
if os.path.exists("Himanshu.txt"):
os.remove("Himanshu.txt")
else:
print("The file does not exist")

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Thank You

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