Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

Read/Write Data

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Reading and writing text data—reading text encoded in any encoding from a file
• Reading lines of text—reading a text file divided line by line
• Reading and writing binary data—reading binary-structured data from a file
• Zipping a directory—reading and writing a compressed ZIP archive
• Pickling and shelving—how to save Python objects on disk
• Reading configuration files—how to read configuration files in the .ini format
• Writing XML/HTML content—generating XML/HTML content
• Reading XML/HTML content—parsing XML/HTML content from a file or string
• Reading and writing CSV—reading and writing CSV spreadsheet-like files
• Reading and writing to a relational database—loading and saving ...