Python Programming with Raspberry Pi

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed file I/O – reading and writing to files, different flags used to read, write, and append to files. We talked about moving file pointers to different points in a file to retrieve specific content or overwrite the contents of a file at a specific location. We discussed the ConfigParser module in Python and its application in storing/retrieving config parameters for applications along with reading and writing to CSV files.

Finally, we discussed different Python utilities that have a potential use in our project. We will be extensively making use of file I/O and the discussed Python utilities in our final project. We strongly recommend familiarizing yourself with the concepts discussed in this chapter before ...