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Summary
- File handling involves working with files, including reading, writing, and manipulating file data.
- Files allow data to be stored beyond the runtime of a program, providing permanent storage for future program runs.
- Python provides built-in functions and methods for file handling, making it easy to perform file operations.
- Files can store structured or unstructured data such as text, numbers, images, audio, and video.
- There are two types of files: text files (human-readable) and binary files (non-human-readable).
- Opening a file in Python is done using the open() function, specifying the filename and mode.
- Common modes include read, write, append, read and write, write and read, and append and read.
- Writing data to a file can be done ...
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