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FILE OPENING AND CLOSING

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ROHINI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

READING AND WRITING A FILE


There are two methods to access the data in the file.
1. read()
2. write()
1. read() Method
This method reads a string from an open file.
Syntax:
file_object.read([count])

 Here passed parameter is a number of bytes to be read from the opened file.
For Example if the file have the content,
sample.txt – Problem Solving and Python Programming.
Example Program

Output
Read string is : Problem So
Read string is : lving and Python Pro
Read string is : gramming

2. write() Method
This method writes a string from an open file.
Syntax:
file_object.write(“String”)
Example:

f=open("F:/Python/test.txt","w+")
print(f.write(“This is my first file”))
print(f.read())
f.close()

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Output:
This is my first file

WORKING WITH TEXT FILES


1) readline() method

There are two functions to read a file line by line, then there are two methods
 readline()
 readlines()
1.readline()
Every time a user runs the method, it will return a string of characters that
contains a single line of information from the file.

Syntax: file_object.readline()

Example
Consider the file test.txt contain these three lines
This is the First Line in the file
This is the Second Line in the file
This is the Third Line in the file
Now the Python source code is

f=open("F:/Python/test.txt","r")
print(f.readline())
f.close()

Output:
This is the First Line in the file

2. readlines() method
This method is used to return a list containing all the lines separated by the special character (
\n ).
Syntax:

file_object.readlines()

Example
Consider the same file
Now the Python source code is

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ROHINI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

f=open("F:/Python/test.txt","r")
print(f.readlines())
f.close()

Output
['This is the First Line in the file\n', 'This is the Second Line in the file\n', 'This is the Third
Line in the file']

LOOPING OVER THE FILE


(i) Write a python program to read a file without using read() function.

f=open("test.txt","r")
for line in f:
print(line)
f.close()

Output:
This is the First Line in the file
This is the Second Line in the file
This is the Third Line in the file

(ii) Write a python program to access a file using with statement.


Syntax:

with open(“filename”) as file:

Example:

with open(“test.txt”) as f: Output:


This is the First Line in the file
for line in f:
This is the Second Line in the file
print(line) This is the Third Line in the file

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