Writing and Reading Information from a File in Python

 

Writing and Reading Information from a File in Python. in this article i will show  how to read and write file by stepping through the sample python code.

Writing File 

• Before we are able to write a file , we need to open it
• So i use the open() python finction to open the file call “employee.txt” by assigning the “w” ehich is a write function
• And save the result into a Variable myfile

 

>>> myfile=open("employee.txt","w")

1. Now i will write some info into the file

>>> myfile.write("Mike\nJack")

1. After you are done , close the file
2. Open the file again
3. Use the read() function to read the content inside the file
4. save what you have read inside a variable
5. Print out the variable

>>> myfile.close()
>>> myfile=open("employee.txt")
>>> m =myfile.read()
>>> print(m)

Out Put should look like this

Mike
Jackbrian
>>> 

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