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| gets input from a file rather than from a user typing on a keyboard. |
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| closes the file, after which no more reads or writes to the file are allowed. |
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| returns the file contents as a string. |
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| returns a list of strings, where the first element is the contents of the first line, the second element is the contents of the second line, and so on. |
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| writes a string argument to a file. |
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| indicates how a file is opened. open('myfile.txt', 'w') opens myfile.txt for writing. If mode is not specified the default is 'r'. types are 'r', 'w', 'a', and 'mode+'. |
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| data is written to disk only when a newline character is output. f = open('myfile.txt', 'w', buffering=100) will write the output buffer to disk every 100 bytes. |
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| can be called to force the interpreter to flush the output buffer to disk. |
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| considered when reading and writing files outside the executing program's directory, since file path representations often differ between operating systems. |
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| contains many portable functions for handling file paths. |
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| The character between directories, e.g. "\\"or "/" |
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