Thread by @driscollis

If you want to use #Python to read and write text or binary files, then you'll need to familiarize yourself with the built-in `open()` function!

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#Python's `open()` function actually has quite a few different parameters that you can use:

The most commonly used parameters you will use with #Python's `open()` function are:

🐍 file - The path to the file
🐍 mode - Read, write, binary, etc
🐍 encoding - What encoding the file is in

Here is a listing of the various modes you can use when you open a file.

Note that some of the modes can be combined. For example "rb" means read-binary while "w+" means open and truncate.

The most common way to open a file in #Python is to use a `with` statement.

When you open a file this way, it will close the file handler object for you automatically.

If you don't use #Python's `with` statement when opening the file, you would write the code like this.

Note that it is best practice to close the file when you are done with it.

You should also wrap file I/O in a try/except in most cases to catch errors! 🐍⚠️

For more information about using #Python's `open()` function, you can check out the documentation page here:

docs.python.org/3/library/func…

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