Python File Operations - Tutorials and Examples

File Operations

It is very important for any programming language to interact with the File System and be able to do all the read, write, update, append and delete operations on the files and folders/directories.

File Operation Tutorials

The following tutorials cover file operations like read, write, append, update, and delete on files, directories, etc., using Python programming.

CRUD Operations - Files

Python - Create new file
Python - Open a file
Python - Read file
Python - Write to file
Python - Append to file
Python - Delete file
Python - Rename file
Python - Copy file
Python - Print to file
Python - Print from file
Python - Replace file extension

File modes

Python - Open file in read mode
Python - Open file in write mode
Python - Open file in append mode
Python - Open file in text mode
Python - Open file in binary mode

Directory or Folder Operations

Python - Create a Directory
Python - Remove directory
Python - Rename directory
Python - Copy directory
Python - Get list of files in a directory
Python - Get list of all files in a directory and its sub-directories recursively

Checks

Python - Check if file exists
Python - Check if directory exists
Python - Check if file is writable
Python - Check if file is readable
Python - Check if file is empty
Python - Check if directory is empty
Python - Check if specified path is file or directory

File Meta Information

Python - Get file size
Python - Get file extension
Python - Get file created time
Python - Get file last modified time
Python - Get file last access time
Python - Update file last modified time

Text File Operations

Python - Write string to text file
Python - Write list of strings as lines in text file
Python - Find unique words in text tile
Python - Append text to file
Python - Read file line by line
Python - Replace a string in text file
Python - Replace multiple spaces with single space in a text file
Python - Resize or truncate text file to specific size
Python - Count number of words in text tile
Python - Count number of characters in a text file
Python - Count occurrences of a word in text file

CSV File Operations

Python - Read CSV file

Error Handling

Handling Python FileNotFoundError

Summary

In this tutorial of Python Examples, we learned about some of the file operations that we can perform on files and directories.