Title: Create A New File Then Write To It
Slug: create_a_new_file_and_the_write_to_it
Summary: Create A New File Then Write To It Using Python.
Date: 2017-02-02 12:00
Category: Python
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon

Create A New File And Write To It



In [1]:

    
# Create a file if it doesn't already exist
with open('file.txt', 'xt') as f:
    # Write to the file
    f.write('This file now exsits!')
    # Close the connection to the file
    f.close()

Open The File And Read It



In [2]:

    
# Open the file
with open('file.txt', 'rt') as f:
    # Read the data in the file
    data = f.read()
    # Close the connection to the file
    f.close()

View The Contents Of The File



In [3]:

    
# View the data in the file
data









    Out[3]:





'This file now exsits!'

Delete The File



In [4]:

    
# Import the os package
import os

# Delete the file
os.remove('file.txt')