In Python's built-in open function, what is the difference between the modes w, a, w+, a+, and r+? The documentation implies that these all allow writing to the file, and says that they open the …

webbrowser.open(url, new=0, autoraise=True) Display url using the default browser. If new is 0, the url is opened in the same browser window if possible. If new is 1, a new browser window is …

The default UTF-8 encoding of Python 3 only extends to conversions between bytes and str types. open() instead chooses an appropriate default encoding based on the environment: encoding …

Jun 3, 2010 · What is the best way to open a file as read/write if it exists, or if it does not, then create it and open it as read/write? From what I read, file = open ('myfile.dat', 'rw') should do …

As a sidenote, quoting from PEP8: “Relative imports for intra-package imports are highly discouraged. Always use the absolute package path for all imports.” Here, from …

On Python 3.4, the pathlib module was added, and the following code will reliably open a file in the same directory as the current script: from pathlib import Path

401 Python allows putting multiple open() statements in a single with. You comma-separate them. Your code would then be: def filter(txt, oldfile, newfile): '''\ Read a list of names from a file line …

Aug 24, 2011 · Also, python handles relative paths just fine, so long as you have correct permissions. Edit: As mentioned by kindall in the comments, python can convert between unix …

Jul 11, 2011 · And: f.write (string) writes the contents of string to the file, returning None. Also if you open Python tutorial about reading and writing files you will find that: 'r+' opens the file for …

171 Let me clarify how Python finds files: An absolute path is a path that starts with your computer's root directory, for example C:\Python\scripts if you're on Windows. A relative path …