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: …

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...

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 …

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 …

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 …

Oct 18, 2016 · How do I open a text file in Python? Asked 9 years, 1 month ago Modified 5 years, 7 months ago Viewed 62k times

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:

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

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 …

The following is an example of how you might write and read a pickle file. Note that if you keep appending pickle data to the file, you will need to continue reading from the file until you find …