Lecture 11: November 5, 2019

Reading: §7
> Due: Homework 3, due on November 8 at 11:59pm

1. Files
   1. What is a file?
   2. What can you do with it? (For example, read, write, append)
   3. Types of files (text, binary)
2. File Input and Output for text files
   1. Opening and closing: open(filename, mode), close()
   2. Reading: readline(), readlines(), read(), read(n)
   3. Writing: write(str), writelines(list)
3. Examples
   1. Print out a named file [fileio1.py]
   2. Print out a named file and prepend line numbers [fileio2.py]
   3. Store the output in filename.lst [fileio3.py]
4. Examples
   1. Put lines in a file in random order [randlines.py]
   2. Read in a list of words from a file, then search it as requested; similar to linear search program [search-1.py]
   3. Now see how many words you checked total [search-1c.py]

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