Oct 18, 2016 · Currently I am trying to open a text file called "temperature.txt" i have saved on my desktop using file handler, however for some reason i cannot get it to work. Could anyone tell …

912 Rather than mess with .encode and .decode, specify the encoding when opening the file. The io module, added in Python 2.6, provides an io.open function, which allows specifying the file's …

Aug 15, 2013 · Anyways, I'm working on a piece of code that will open a file, print out the contents on the screen, ask you if you want to edit/delete/etc the contents, do it, and then re-print out …

186 In Python, when given the URL for a text file, what is the simplest way to access the contents off the text file and print the contents of the file out locally line-by-line without saving a local …

Jan 16, 2011 · On some operating systems, opening the file with 'a' guarantees that all your following writes will be appended atomically to the end of the file (even as the file grows by …

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 …

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 …

Dec 16, 2014 · 3 The open() built-in Python method (doc) uses normally two arguments: the file path and the mode. You have three principal modes (the most used): r, w and a.

May 4, 2010 · I have text file which I want to erase in Python. How do I do that?

Jun 20, 2001 · I have a text file which contains a table comprised of numbers e.g: 5 10 6 6 20 1 7 30 4 8 40 3 9 23 1 4 13 6 if for example I want the numbers contained only in the second …