Writing to files in Python

We create a file object with open() and use the write method:

# Open file in write mode
file = open("example.txt", "w")

# Write some text to the file
file.write("Hello, this is an example text written using Python.")

# Close the file
file.close()

Alternatively we use with open which automatically closes the file:


with open("example.txt", "w") as file
    file.write('some lines')

Note that in the above example, if the file does not already exist, it will create it. If it does exist, it will overwrite its contents with the new data. So we use write to create new files as well as to write to existing files.

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