2.2.3 Additional programming techniques

Question 1

What is File Handling?

Answer 1

File Handling is a way of storing information

Question 2

What is the code to open a file?

Answer 2

file = open (“document.txt” , “w”)

file - keyword, assign to operation
open - reserve word to open a document
document - document name
w - operation

Question 3

What does w, a and r mean?

Answer 3

w - write
a - append
r - read

Question 4

What is the code so it will write your name and age into the file?

Answer 4

file.write (name)
file.write (age)

Question 5

What is the code to close the document?

Answer 5

file.close()

Question 6

What can you not write into a text file?

Answer 6

int

Question 7

Ask 10 students to enter their preferred meal for parents evening

Answer 7

for i in range (10):
name = str(input(“What is your name?”))
meal = str(input(“Do you want rice, chicken, pasta or meatballs?”))
file = open(“meal.txt” , “a”)
file.write (name + “,”)
file.write (meal)
file.write (“\n”)
file.close ()

Question 8

What does file.write (“\n”) mean?

Answer 8

It means new line and you have to apply it to the end