Python makes it simple to create new files, read existing files, append data, or replace data in existing files. With the aid of a few open-source and third-party libraries, it can manage practically all of the file types that are currently supported. We must iterate through all the necessary files, collect their data, and then add it to a new file in order to concatenate several files into a single file. This article demonstrates how to use Python to concatenate multiple files into a single file. Using Loops A list of filenames or file paths to the necessary python files ... Read More
You might wish to perform a specific action in a Python script only if a file or directory is present or not. For instance, you might wish to read from or write to a configuration file, or only create the file if it doesn't already exist There are many different ways to check if a file exists and figure out what kind of file it is in Python. Using OS Module An inbuilt Python module called Os has tools for dealing with the operating system. We can access operating system features by using os. In Python, os.path is a sub-module ... Read More
By utilising the pwd, grp, and os modules, you can modify the owner of a file or directory. To obtain the user ID from the user name, to obtain the group ID from the group name string, and to modify the owner, one uses the uid module. Following are the methods to change the owner of a directory using Python − Using os.chown() Method To change the owner and group id of the given path to the specified numeric owner id (UID) and group id(GID), use Python's os.chown() method. Syntax os.chown(filepath, uid, gid, *, dir_fd = None, follow_symlinks = True) ... Read More
The user whose actions are allowed on a file are governed by its file permissions. A file's permissions for reading, writing, and executing are modified when the file's permissions are changed. This article will cover how to change a file's permission in Python. Using os.chmod() Method To modify the permissions of a file, use the os.chmod () method. Syntax Following is the syntax for os.chmod() method − os.chmod(path, mode) Where, path represents the path of the file and mode contains different values as explained below. There is no return value obtained in this method. Os.chmod() modes Following are the ... Read More
In this article, we will show you how to convert a CSV File (Comma Separated Values) to an excel file using the pandas module in python. Assume we have taken an excel file with the name ExampleCsvFile.csv containing some random text. We will return a CSV File after converting the given excel file into a CSV file. ExampleCsvFile.csv Player Name Age Type Country Team Runs Wickets Virat Kohli 33 Batsman India Royal Challengers Bangalore 6300 20 Bhuvneshwar Kumar34 Batsman India Sun Risers Hyderabad 333 140 Mahendra Singh Dhoni 39 Batsman India Chennai ... Read More
Python has built-in functions for creating, reading, and writing files, among other file operations. Normal text files and binary files are the two basic file types that Python can handle. We'll look at how to write content into text files in Python in this article. Steps involved writing multiple lines in a text file using Python Following are the ways to write multiple lines in text file using Python − The open() method must be used to open the file for writing, and the function must be given a file path. The following step is to write to file. ... Read More
Directories and files can be deleted using Python's built-in modules and functions. Removing files or directories is a significant process since, after you've destroyed a directory, it's difficult to get its contents back. Therefore, users can remove the directory and its contents without much difficulty by applying a few useful Python functions. Python has the following functions for removing a directory or folder − Using os.rmdir() function Python uses the os.rmdir() function to delete empty directories. In this scenario, the required directory must be empty; else, an OSError would be raised. If the directory doesn't exist, the FileNOtFoundError is thrown. ... Read More
The purpose of internal buffers, which are created by the runtime, library, and programming language that you're using, is to speed up operations by preventing system calls on every write. Instead, when writing to a file object, you write into its buffer, and when the buffer is full, system functions are used to write the data to the actual file. Syntax Following is the syntax of flush() function − File_name.flush() No parameters are accepted by it. This method returns nothing; its return type is . Example -1 The flush() method in the program below simply clears the file's internal ... Read More
The file truncate() method is quite effective. The first reason it is referred to as a method rather than a function is that it comprises the file name (i.e., the object of the file) and a dot operator in addition to other factors (i.e. object of file). Truncation means cutting off. In this case, we define cutting-off in terms of size. Syntax Following is the syntax used to truncate the file to a given size − file.truncate(size) Sending the parameter to this method is not essential. If the size is given as a parameter, it must be given ... Read More
There are various ways to read files in Python. The most common methods for reading files line by line in Python will be covered. Using readlines() Method Using this method, a file will be opened and its contents will be divided into separate lines. A list of every line in the file is also returned by this method. To effectively read a whole file, we can use the readlines() function. Following is an example to remove swap files using file.endswith() method − Example Following is an example to read a text file line by line using readlines() method − # ... Read More