Jun 3, 2010 · What is the best way to open a file as read/write if it exists, or if it does not, then create it and open it as read/write? From what I read, file = open ('myfile.dat', 'rw') should do …

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 …

When you say "replace the old content that's in the file with the new content", you need to read in and transform the current contents data = file.read(). You don't mean "blindly overwrite it …

How can I make one python file to run another? For example I have two .py files. I want one file to be run, and then have it run the other .py file.

$ 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 …

The default UTF-8 encoding of Python 3 only extends to conversions between bytes and str types. open() instead chooses an appropriate default encoding based on the environment: encoding …

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...

It's a pity there is no possibility to right-click any folder in jupyter's "explorer view" and get a menu option to open the folder in the true os file explorer. This leads to convoluted tricks for files and …

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 8, 2017 · Python provides us with an attribute called __file__ that returns the absolute path to the file. For example, say that the content of first_file.py is just one line that prints this path: …