Chapter 2. Files

Introduction

Recipe 2.1.  Reading from a File

Recipe 2.2.  Writing to a File

Recipe 2.3.  Searching and Replacing Text in a File

Recipe 2.4.  Reading a Specific Line from a File

Recipe 2.5.  Counting Lines in a File

Recipe 2.6.  Processing Every Word in a File

Recipe 2.7.  Using Random-Access Input/Output

Recipe 2.8.  Updating a Random-Access File

Recipe 2.9.  Reading Data from zip Files

Recipe 2.10.  Handling a zip File Inside a String

Recipe 2.11.  Archiving a Tree of Files into a Compressed tar File

Recipe 2.12.  Sending Binary Data to Standard Output Under Windows

Recipe 2.13.  Using a C++-like iostream Syntax

Recipe 2.14.  Rewinding an Input File to the Beginning

Recipe 2.15.  Adapting a File-like Object to a True File Object

Recipe 2.16.  Walking Directory Trees

Recipe 2.17.  Swapping One File Extension for Another Throughout a Directory Tree

Recipe 2.18.  Finding a File Given a Search Path

Recipe 2.19.  Finding Files Given a Search Path and a Pattern

Recipe 2.20.  Finding a File on the Python Search Path

Recipe 2.21.  Dynamically Changing the PythonSearch Path

Recipe 2.22.  Computing the Relative Path from One Directory to Another

Recipe 2.23.  Reading an Unbuffered Character in a Cross-Platform Way

Recipe 2.24.  Counting Pages of PDF Documents on Mac OS X

Recipe 2.25.  Changing File Attributes on Windows

Recipe 2.26.  Extracting Text from OpenOffice.org Documents

Recipe 2.27.  Extracting Text from Microsoft Word Documents

Recipe 2.28.  File Locking Using a Cross-Platform API

Recipe 2.29.  Versioning Filenames

Recipe 2.30.  Calculating CRC-64 Cyclic Redundancy Checks