Practical Network Automation - Second Edition

Handling files

Once in a while, we need to work on stored data or store some data from a script. For this purpose, we use file-handling techniques.

Consider the example for handling data storage (as a record) :

getinput=input("Do you want to store a new record (Y/N) ")#this is to remove any extra spaces getinput=getinput.strip()#this is to convert all input to lower case getinput=getinput.lower()#read values and create a record if ("y" in getinput):   readvaluename=input("Enter the Name: ")   readvalueage=input("Enter the Age: ")   readvaluelocation=input("Current location: ")   tmpvariable=readvaluename+","+readvalueage+","+readvaluelocation+"\n"### open a file myrecord.csv in write mode, write the record and close it fopen=open("myrecord.csv","w") ...