I'm looking at how to do file input and output in Python. I've written the following code to read a list of names (one per line) from a file into another file while checking a name against the name...

In Python's built-in open function, what is the difference between the modes w, a, w+, a+, and r+? The documentation implies that these all allow writing to the file, and says that they open the …

Jul 11, 2011 · Is there a way to open a file for both reading and writing? As a workaround, I open the file for writing, close it, then open it again for reading. But is there a way to open a file for …

Oct 22, 2013 · I am very new to programming and the python language. I know how to open a file in python, but the question is how can I open the file as a parameter of a function? example: …

Jun 3, 2010 · The file pointer is at the end of the file if the file exists. The file opens in the append mode. If the file does not exist, it creates a new file for reading and writing. - Python file modes …

In Ruby you can read from a file using s = File.read (filename). The shortest and clearest I know in Python is with open (filename) as f: s = f.read () Is there any other way to do it that makes it

Oct 18, 2016 · Currently I am trying to open a text file called "temperature.txt" i have saved on my desktop using file handler, however for some reason i cannot get it to work. Could anyone tell …

Closed 2 years ago. I used to open files that were in the same directory as the currently running Python script by simply using a command like:

Jan 16, 2011 · On some operating systems, opening the file with 'a' guarantees that all your following writes will be appended atomically to the end of the file (even as the file grows by …

$ python script.py In order to make this work, the directory containing the python executable must be in the PATH, a so-called environment variable that contains directories that are …