Chapter 14 – Python File Write Operations

 

Step 1

 

Open any text editor (gedit,pico,vi,nano) then enter the following python script and save the file with .py extension.

 

#!/usr/bin/python

#Author : Jijo K Jose

 

print "\n------------------------------------\nChapter 14 - File Writing \n------------------------------------\n"

 

h1 = open("data1","r")

h2 = open("data2","w")

h3 = open("data3","w")

print h1

 

h1 = open("data1","r")

s = h1.readlines()

print "\nReading the Content - readlines() : ",s

 

for i in s:

 h2.write(i)

 

print "File contents are written to data2 using write()"

 

h3.writelines(s)

print "File contents are written to data3 using writelines()"

 

print "\n--------------------------------------\n"

 

h1.close()

h2.close()

 

#END

 

Step 2

 

Change file permission to executable using chmod command.

 

Step 3

 

Execute the python file.

 

 

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