Files

Question 1

Working with data files

Answer 1

• In Python, we must open files before we can use them and close them when we are done with them.

Question 2

Open & close

Answer 2

open(filename, ‘r’)
Open a file called filename and use it for reading. This will return a reference to a file object.

open(filename, ‘w’)
Open a file called filename and use it for writing. This will also return a reference to a file object.

filevariable.close() File use is complete.