File Handling in Python

Learn to create, open, write, read, update, and delete text and binary data files.

Create a new file

Software applications and programs deal with files for input and output. Python has various built-in functions for creating, reading, writing, updating, and deleting files.

To create a file in Python, we first open it using the open() method. This function requires two input parameters: filename and mode. The syntax of open() is:

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