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author | Tanay Parikh <TanayParikh@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-06-19 11:33:07 -0700 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-06-19 11:33:07 -0700 |
commit | 247dc6e86c1421fa031e4b61c42c05ca6e09bfb0 (patch) | |
tree | f4bf4df8e87d3087abbf9a280c82f8bdd0b2089b /python.html.markdown | |
parent | 835d077573fea060406ca6e5096779526ae96760 (diff) |
Python Update `open` File Open `mode`
Per https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/functions.html#open, the `+` is for `open a disk file for updating (reading and writing)`. Per the example, if we're looking to just read/write, the `+` isn't necessary.
Diffstat (limited to 'python.html.markdown')
-rw-r--r-- | python.html.markdown | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/python.html.markdown b/python.html.markdown index 0bd16a80..e46d726e 100644 --- a/python.html.markdown +++ b/python.html.markdown @@ -492,19 +492,19 @@ with open("myfile.txt") as f: # Writing to a file contents = {"aa": 12, "bb": 21} -with open("myfile1.txt", "w+") as file: +with open("myfile1.txt", "w") as file: file.write(str(contents)) # writes a string to a file -with open("myfile2.txt", "w+") as file: +with open("myfile2.txt", "w") as file: file.write(json.dumps(contents)) # writes an object to a file # Reading from a file -with open('myfile1.txt', "r+") as file: +with open('myfile1.txt', "r") as file: contents = file.read() # reads a string from a file print(contents) # print: {"aa": 12, "bb": 21} -with open('myfile2.txt', "r+") as file: +with open('myfile2.txt', "r") as file: contents = json.load(file) # reads a json object from a file print(contents) # print: {"aa": 12, "bb": 21} |