Python File

A directory, as its name implies, is a place where sub-directories are created and files are stored. A directory with no parent is referred to as the root directory which is usually the main directory. This tutorial demonstrates the different ways available to iterate through files in directory in Python. Python provides the os module […]

Python allows us to work with different data structures and write them to an external file. In this tutorial, we will learn how to write a list to a file in Python. If you want write list to CSV file, you can refer write list to CSV in Python. Using the write() function to write […]

There are different ways to define the path of the file. In Windows, the path separator for a file can be either a backslash or a forward slash. The ntpath module of Python will work on all platforms for all paths. The forwardslash / is used for UNIX and MacOS operating system and backslash \ […]

Learn about how to read text file line by line in Python.

In this post, we will see how to list all files in a directory in Python. There are multiple ways to list all files in a directory in Python. Using os.walk Python os module provides multiple function to get list of files. List all files in directory and its subdirectories using os.walk(path). It iterates directory […]

In this post, we will see how to write to a text file. There are multiple modes in which you can write to text file. Create txt file(‘x’) It will open the file in 'X' mode which will create new file and return error in case file already exists. [crayon-614e4d7185163283074102/] Here is content of fruits.txt. […]

In this post, we will see how to read a file into a string variable. There are multiple ways to read file into String in Python. Using read() method Here are the steps to read file into string in python. Open the file in read mode using open() method and store it in variable named […]