File handling is an important part of any web application.
Python has several functions for creating, reading, updating, and deleting files.
The key function for working with files in Python is the open()
function.
The open()
function takes two parameters; filename, and mode.
There are four different methods (modes) for opening a file:
"r"
- Read - Default value. Opens 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 - Creates the specified file, returns an error if the file exists
In addition you can specify if the file should be handled as binary or text mode
"t"
- Text - Default value. Text mode
"b"
- Binary - Binary mode (e.g. images)
To open a file for reading it is enough to specify the name of the file:
f = open("demofile.txt")
The code above is the same as:
f = open("demofile.txt", "rt")
Because "r"
for read, and "t"
for text are the default values, you do not need to specify them.
Assume we have the following file, located in the same folder as Python:
demofile.txt
Hello! Welcome to demofile.txt
This file is for testing purposes.
Good Luck!
To open the file, use the built-in open()
function.
The open()
function returns a file object, which has a read()
method for reading the content of the file:
f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
print(f.read())
If the file is located in a different location, you will have to specify the file path, like this:
Open a file on a different location:
f = open("D:\\myfiles\welcome.txt", "r")
print(f.read())
By default the read()
method returns the whole text, but you can also specify how many characters you want to return:
Return the 5 first characters of the file:
f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
print(f.read(5))
You can return one line by using the readline()
method:
Read one line of the file:
f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
print(f.readline())
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