5 Files
Files are an indispensable part of the world of computers, and thus of programming. We read data from files, and write to files. Even when something isn’t really a file--such as a network connection--we try to use an interface similar to files because they’re so familiar.
To normal, everyday users, there are different types of files--Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF, among others. To programmers, things are both simpler and more complicated. They’re simpler in that we see files as data structures to which we can write strings, and from which we can read strings. But files are also more complicated, in that when we read the string into memory, we might need to parse it into a data structure.
Working with files is one of the easiest and ...
Get Python Workout now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
