Python File Handling

Introduction

File handling is an important part of any web application.

Python has several functions for creating, reading, updating, and deleting files.

File Handling

The key function for working with files in Python is the open() function.

The open() function takes two parameters; filename, and mode.

There are four different methods (modes) for opening a file:

In addition you can specify if the file should be handled as binary or text mode

Syntax

To open a file for reading it is enough to specify the name of the file:

The code above is the same as:

Because "r" for read, and "t" for text are the default values, you do not need to specify them.