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File Handling in Python

Explore essential Python file handling methods to create, read, write, append, and delete both text and binary files. Understand file modes, encoding, and error handling to manage data input and output effectively in your programs.

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 file filename; it returns an error if the specified file already exists. ...