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    This document discusses Python file handling and provides examples of opening, reading, writing, and closing files. It covers opening files with the open() function, reading files using methods like read(), readline(), and looping through lines. It also covers writing to files using modes like "a" to append and "w" to overwrite, as well as creating new files. The document concludes with examples of writing to CSV files using the csv.writer and csv.DictWriter classes.

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    PYTHON FILE HANDLING

     Open a file on the server

    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:

    #’r’ here specifies the reading mode 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:

    f = open("D:\\myfiles\welcome.txt", "r")
    print(f.read())

    To read only parts of the file-

    By default the read() method returns the whole text, but you can also
    specify how many characters you want to return:

    f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
    print(f.read(5))

    -It will return 5 first characters of the file.

    To read lines-

    You can return one line by using the readline() method:

    f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
    print(f.readline())

    To read n lines from the file, use readline(), n times:

    Example- To read two lines of the file:

    f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
    print(f.readline())
    print(f.readline())

    Read complete file-


    You can read the complete file by looping through the lines of the
    file.

    f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
    for x in f:
      print(x)

    Close Files-

    You can close the files using close() method.

    f = open("demofile.txt", "r")
    print(f.readline())
    f.close()

     PYTHON FILE WRITE


    To write to an existing file, you must add a parameter to the open() function:

    "a" - Append - will append to the end of the file

    "w" - Write - will overwrite any existing content

    f = open("demofile2.txt", "a")
    f.write("Now the file has more content!")
    f.close()

    #’w’ will overwrite the existing content.

    f = open("demofile3.txt", "w")
    f.write("Woops! I have deleted the content!")
    f.close()

    Create a New File-


    "x" - Create - will create a file, returns an error if the file exist

    "a" - Append - will create a file if the specified file does not exist

    "w" - Write - will create a file if the specified file does not exist

    Writing into a .csv file


    Using csv.Writer class
    import csv 
        
    # field names 
    fields = ['Name', 'Branch', 'Year', 'CGPA'] 
        
    # data rows of csv file 
    rows = [ ['Nikhil', 'COE', '2', '9.0'], 
             ['Sanchit', 'COE', '2', '9.1'], 
             ['Aditya', 'IT', '2', '9.3'], 
             ['Sagar', 'SE', '1', '9.5'], 
             ['Prateek', 'MCE', '3', '7.8'], 
             ['Sahil', 'EP', '2', '9.1']] 
        
    # name of csv file 
    filename = "university_records.csv"
        
    # writing to csv file 
    with open(filename, 'w') as csvfile: 
        # creating a csv writer object 
        csvwriter = csv.writer(csvfile) 
            
        # writing the fields 
        csvwriter.writerow(fields) 
            
        # writing the data rows 
        csvwriter.writerows(rows)

    Using csv.Dictwriter class


    # importing the csv module 
    import csv 
        
    # my data rows as dictionary objects 
    mydict =[{'branch': 'COE', 'cgpa': '9.0', 'name': 'Nikhil', 'year':
    '2'}, 
             {'branch': 'COE', 'cgpa': '9.1', 'name': 'Sanchit',
    'year': '2'}, 
             {'branch': 'IT', 'cgpa': '9.3', 'name': 'Aditya',
    'year': '2'}, 
             {'branch': 'SE', 'cgpa': '9.5', 'name': 'Sagar',
    'year': '1'}, 
             {'branch': 'MCE', 'cgpa': '7.8', 'name': 'Prateek',
    'year': '3'}, 
             {'branch': 'EP', 'cgpa': '9.1', 'name': 'Sahil',
    'year': '2'}] 
        
    # field names 
    fields = ['name', 'branch', 'year', 'cgpa'] 
        
    # name of csv file 
    filename = "university_records.csv"
        
    # writing to csv file 
    with open(filename, 'w') as csvfile: 
        # creating a csv dict writer object 
        writer = csv.DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames = fields) 
            
        # writing headers (field names) 
        writer.writeheader() 
            
        # writing data rows 
        writer.writerows(mydict) 

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