File Handling in Python
Learn to create, open, write, read, update, and delete text and binary data files.
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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:
f = open(filename, mode)
The syntax of the open() method
The parameter mode can take the following values.
x: This creates the filefilename; it ...