Chapter 4. Files

Section 4.1.  Introduction

Section 4.2.  Reading from a File

Section 4.3.  Writing to a File

Section 4.4.  Searching and Replacing Text in a File

Section 4.5.  Reading a Particular Line from a File

Section 4.6.  Retrieving a Line at Random from a File of Unknown Size

Section 4.7.  Counting Lines in a File

Section 4.8.  Processing Every Word in a File

Section 4.9.  Reading a Text File by Paragraphs

Section 4.10.  Reading Lines with Continuation Characters

Section 4.11.  Reading Data from ZIP Files

Section 4.12.  Reading INI Configuration Files

Section 4.13.  Sending Binary Data to Standard Output Under Windows

Section 4.14.  Using Random-Access Input/Output

Section 4.15.  Updating a Random-Access File

Section 4.16.  Splitting a Path into All of Its Parts

Section 4.17.  Treating Pathnames as Objects

Section 4.18.  Creating Directories Including Necessary Parent Directories

Section 4.19.  Walking Directory Trees

Section 4.20.  Swapping One File Extension for Another Throughout a Directory Tree

Section 4.21.  Finding a File Given an Arbitrary Search Path

Section 4.22.  Finding a File on the Python Search Path

Section 4.23.  Dynamically Changing the Python Search Path

Section 4.24.  Computing Directory Sizes in a Cross-Platform Way

Section 4.25.  File Locking Using a Cross-Platform API

Section 4.26.  Versioning Filenames

Section 4.27.  Module: Versioned Backups