Opening files in Python

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30 Sep 2022

Usage

with open(f"test/soup-{slug_from_url(url)}.pkl", 'wb') as pf:
    pickle.dump(soup, pf)

Attributes:

"r" - Read - Default value. Opens a file for reading, error if the file does not exist
"a" - Append - Opens a file for appending, creates the file if it does not exist
"w" - Write - Opens a file for writing, creates the file if it does not exist
"x" - Create - Creates the specified file, returns an error if the file exists

In addition you can specify if the file should be handled as binary or text mode:

"t" - Text - Default value. Text mode
"b" - Binary - Binary mode (e.g. images)

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