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To write to an existing file, you must add a parameter to theopen() function
To write to an existing file, you must add a parameter to the
open()
function:
"a"
- Append - will append to the end of the file
"w"
- Write - will overwrite any existing content
Open the file "demofile2.txt" and append content to the file:
f = open("demofile2.txt", "a")
f.write("Now the file has more content!")
f.close()
#open and read the file after the appending:
f =
open("demofile2.txt", "r")
print(f.read())
Open the file "demofile3.txt" and overwrite the content:
f = open("demofile3.txt", "w")
f.write("Woops! I have deleted the content!")
f.close()
#open and read the file after the appending:
f = open("demofile3.txt", "r")
print(f.read())
Note: the "w" method will overwrite the entire file.
To create a new file in Python, use the open()
method,
with one of the following parameters:
"x"
- Create - will create a file, returns
an error if the file exist
"a"
- Append - will create a file if the
specified file does not exist
"w"
- Write - will create a file if the
specified file does not exist
Create a file called "myfile.txt":
f = open("myfile.txt", "x")
Result: a new empty file is created!
Create a new file if it does not exist:
f = open("myfile.txt", "w")