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UNIT -III_Python file handling, reading and writing files

The document provides an overview of file handling in Python, detailing how to open, read, write, and close files using file handles. It distinguishes between text and binary files, explains basic file operations, and introduces the Pickle module for serialization. Additionally, it covers reading and writing CSV files using both the csv module and the pandas library.

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UNIT -III_Python file handling, reading and writing files

The document provides an overview of file handling in Python, detailing how to open, read, write, and close files using file handles. It distinguishes between text and binary files, explains basic file operations, and introduces the Pickle module for serialization. Additionally, it covers reading and writing CSV files using both the csv module and the pandas library.

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FILE HANDLING

Introduction

Files are named locations on a


disk to store information
permanently.

Programmers need to save


and load information to and
from files.
Introduction
• To work with files in Python, it is essential to load them into
File Loading in memory.
Python:
• Python interacts with files through "file handles."

• File handles are interfaces that enable Python to communicate


with files in memory.
File Handles:
• When a file is opened, the operating system provides Python
with a file handle.

• The operating system locates the file in memory when opened


Operating System by Python.
Interaction:
• If found, the operating system returns a file handle to Python.

• A file handle functions like a cursor for file operations.


File Handle
Analogous to Cursor: • It determines the position from which data should be read or
written in the file.
Introduction

The basic file operations are


• open a file
• read or write or append data
• close a file
Types of File
◦ Text Files: ◦ Binary Files:
1.Store character data, making them suitable 1.Store data in the form of bytes,
for storing strings. accommodating various types like text,
2.Each line in a text file ends with the "End of images, audio, and video.
Line" (EOL) character, typically '\n' in 2.No line terminators; data is stored in
Python. machine-understandable binary language.
3.Human-readable and editable due to the 3.Fast to save and load, and highly compact.
plain text format. 4.Not human-readable or editable, optimized
for performance.

Considerations:
1.Text files are more user-friendly, while binary files are chosen for performance reasons.
2.Text files are readable and editable by humans, whereas binary files are not.
File Operations
◦ Opening file
1st step is to open a file, in python we use built in function open() function.
file_object = open(file_name [, access_mode])

File name – Name of the file to be opened


In case if file location is else where, we must need to provide the exact path.
Access_mode -Access modes determine the operations that can be performed on an opened file.
access mode is optional, in case of not mentioning it will be default (r)
File Attributes
Closing a file
◦ After completing file activities, the file must be closed. Opening the files
could lead to resource waste, data loss, file corruption, and inconsistencies.
The opened file is closed using Python's built-in close() method.
file_object.close()
Example: file = open(“test.txt”)
file.close()
FILE METHODS

write()
writelines()
read()
readline()
readlines().
Writing to a file - write()
◦ Any string can be written to an open file using the write() method. Python
strings are capable of holding both text and binary data.
◦ file_object.write(str1)
Writing to a file (Multiple Lines)- writelines
◦ The writelines() method writes multiple strings at a single time in the text file.
Reading from a file
◦ The read() methods returns the read bytes in the form of a string. While
reading the file, we can specify the number of bytes to read as n bytes, if n
is not specified, the entire content of the file will be returned
Example:-
my_file = open(“sample.txt”, “r”)
print(my_file.read());
my_file.close()
File Built In Methods
◦ tell () Method
Tell method is used to find out the current position of pointer in file.
◦ Rename() Method
The os module in Python provides a way of interacting with the operating system.

os module provides methods that help you perform file processing operations,such as
renaming files and deleting files.
rename()
os.rename(old_Name,New_Name);
File Built In Methods
◦ Remove()
The remove() method is used to remove any existing file.
os.remove(File_name)
Pickle Module
Usually, data will be converted to bytes before converting into binary files.

Python pickle module can be used to convert a Python object (list, dict, etc.) into a character stream.

The idea is that this character stream contains all the information necessary to reconstruct the object in another
python script.

used in serializing and deserializing a Python object structure.

The process that converts any kind of python objects (list, dict, etc.) into byte streams (0s and 1s) to store it in a
file/database is called pickling or serialization or flattening.

Byte stream can be Converted back into python objects which is called as unpickling or de-serializing.
The pickling and unpickling allow us to easily transfer data from one
server/system to another and then store it in a file or database.
Pickle Module
◦ Pickle module needs to be imported to perform serialization or de-serialization

import pickle
Methods in pickle module

• pickle.dump() • pickle.load()
Unpickling

• pickle.dumps() • pickle.loads()

pickling
READING & W RITING CSV FILES

CSV (Comma Separated Values) format is the most common import and export format
for spreadsheets and databases.

It is one of the most common methods for exchanging data between applications and
popular data format used in Data Science.

A CSV file stores tabular data in which each data field is usually separated by a delimiter
comma.

To represent a CSV file, it must be saved with the CSV file extension. The CSV library
provides functionality to both read from and write to CSV files.
IMPORTING CSV
◦ We need to import csv module in order to work with CSV files in python
import csv
After importing csv file needs to be opened – open() method
The file object should be opened with newline=” otherwise, newline
characters inside the quoted fields will not be interpreted correctly.
Writing and Read to CSV file
◦ To write a CSV FILE csv.writer() function after opening the file in write mode.
◦ To read a CSV file in Python, we can use the csv.reader() function
after opening the file in read mode.
Reading and Writing to a CSV file using pandas
◦ Pandas is an open-source Python library that provides high performance data analysis tools and easy
to use data structures. Pandas is a popular data science library in Python for data manipulation and
analysis.
◦ Import pandas library
import pandas as pd

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