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We can also write to files using the open function.

We will use Python's open


function to get a file object to create a text file. We can apply method write to
write data to that file. As a result, text will be written to the file. We can
create the file Example2.txt as follows. We use the open function. The first
argument is the file path. This is made up of the file name. If you have that file
in your directory, it will be overwritten, and the file directory. We set the mode
parameter to W for writing. Finally, we have the file object. As before we use the
with statement. The code will run everything in the indent block then close the
file. We create the file object, File1. We use the open function. This creates a
file Example2.txt in your directory. We use the method write, to write data into
the file. The argument is the text we would like input into the file. If we use the
write method successively, each time it is called, it will write to the file. The
first time it is called, we will write, "This is line A
" to represent a new line. The second time we call the method, it will write, "this
is line B
" then it will close the file. We can write each element in a list to a file. As
before, we use a with command and the open function to create a file. The list,
Lines, has three elements consisting of text. We use a for loop to read each
element of the first lines and pass it to the variable line. The first iteration of
the loop writes the first element of the list to the file Example2. The second
iteration writes the second element of the list and so on. At the end of the loop,
the file will be closed. We can set the mode to appended using a lowercase a. This
will not create a new file but just use the existing file. If we call the method
write, it will just write to the existing file, then add "This is line C" then
close the file. We can copy one file to a new file as follows. First, we read the
file Example1 and interact with it via the file object, read file. Then we create a
new file Example3 and use the file object write file to interact with it. The for
loop takes a line from the file object, read file, and stores it in the file
Example3 using the file object, write file. The first iteration copies the first
line. The second iteration copies the second line, till the end of the file is
reached. Then both files are closed. Check out the labs for more examples. (Music)

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