Section 10.1. Other Chapters That Also Deal with Files

10.1. Other Chapters That Also Deal with Files

Because files are such a crucial concept in programming, even though this chapter is the largest one in the book, several other chapters also contain material that is relevant when you're handling specific kinds of files. In particular, Chapter 11 deals with many kinds of files related to persistence and database functionality (marshal files in "The marshal Module" on page 278, pickle files in "The pickle and cPickle Modules" on page 279, shelve files in "The shelve Module" on page 284, DBM and DBM-like files in "DBM Modules" on page 285, Berkeley database files in "Berkeley DB Interfacing" on page 288), Chapter 23 deals with files in HTML format, and Chapter 24 deals with files in XML format.