As serialized data structures, Python programmers intensively use arrays, lists, and dictionaries. Storing these data structures persistently requires either a file or a database to work with. This article describes how to write a list to file, and how to read that list back into memory.

To write data in

To work with stored data, file handling belongs to the core knowledge of every professional Python programmer. Right from its earliest release, both reading and writing data to files are built-in Python features. In comparison to other programming languages like C or Java it is pretty simple and only requires

Introduction

When it comes to using Python to copy files, there are two main ways: using the shutil module or the os module. All of the os methods we show here are methods that allow us to execute shell commands from our Python code, which we'll use to execute the

Overview

Computer programs are written with a specific purpose in mind. Tools on UNIX/Linux systems follow the idea of specialization - one tool for one task, but to do it as perfect as possible, then. Nethertheless, as with other tools, this allows you to combine single programs, and to

What is a CSV File?

A CSV (Comma Separated Values) file is a file that uses a certain formatting for storing data. This file format organizes information, containing one record per line, with each field (column) separated by a delimiter. The delimiter most commonly used is usually a comma.

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