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File Handling

File
• File is a named location on the system storage which records data for later
access. It enables persistent storage in a non-volatile memory i.e. Hard disk.

• In Python, file processing takes place in the following order.


• Open a file that returns a filehandle.
• Use the handle to perform read or write action.
• Close the filehandle.
• Before you do a read or write operation to a file in Python, you need to open
it first. And as the read/write transaction completes, you should close it to
free the resources tied with the file.
Open a file

• To read or write to a file, you need to open it first. To open a file in Python, use its
built open() function. This function returns a file object, i.e., a handle. You can use
it to read or modify the file.

• We use open () function in Python to open a file in read or write mode. As


explained above, open ( ) will return a file object. To return a file object we
use open() function along with two arguments, that accepts file name and the
mode, whether to read or write. So, the syntax being: open(filename, mode).
There are three kinds of mode, that Python provides and how files can be opened:
• “ r “, for reading.
• “ w “, for writing.
• “ a “, for appending.
• “ r+ “, for both reading and writing
• One must keep in mind that the mode argument is not mandatory. If
not passed, then Python will assume it to be “ r ” by default.
Reading a file
# a file named "geek", will be opened with the reading mode.
file = open('geek.txt', 'r')
# This will print every line one by one in the file
for each in file:
    print (each)

The open command will open the file in the read mode and the for loop
will print each line present in the file.
• There is more than one way to read a file in Python. If you need to
extract a string that contains all characters in the file then we can
use file.read(). The full code would work like this:
# Python code to illustrate read() mode
file = open("file.text", "r")
print (file.read())
• Another way to read a file is to call a certain number of characters like
in the following code the interpreter will read the first five characters
of stored data and return it as a string

# Python code to illustrate read() mode character wise


file = open("file.txt", "r")
print (file.read(5))
Writing a file
• Write operation is used to write the file.
• Let’s see how to create a file and how write mode works:
To manipulate the file, write the following in your Python
environment:
# Python code to create a file
file = open('geek.txt','w')
file.write("This is the write command")
file.write("It allows us to write in a particular file")
file.close()

• The close() command terminates all the resources in use and frees the
system of this particular program.
Append in a file

# Python code to illustrate append() mode


file = open('geek.txt','a')
file.write("This will add this line")
file.close()

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