GCSE Computer Science (Pearson IGCSE)

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ALGORITHMS AND PROGRAMMING: Programming techniques

File handling

Operation Description Python example
Open Open a file (in r = read mode, w = write mode, or a = append mode) file = open(“data.txt”, “r”)
Read Read content from a file data = file.read() or file.readline()
Write Write to a file (overwrites)

file = open(“data.txt”, “w”)

file.write(“Hello”)
Close Closes the file file.close()

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