Writing to files is one of the most important things you will learn in any new programming language. This allows you to save user data for future reference, to manipulate large data sets, or to build ...

A CSV file is a “comma-separated values” file. In plain English, this is a text file that contains an unusually large amount of data. More often than not, this is used in order to create databases of ...

Following up from last week’s article on reading zip archives, we show you how you can create your own archives using Python. Following up from last week’s article on reading zip archives, we show you ...

As a buddy of mine always says "the nice thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from". Take CSV files for example. CSV, of course, stands for "Comma Separated Values", more often than ...

Recently, I've had more opportunities to work with Word and PDF files. I want to convert their contents into a simple text ...

A look at the benefits of using pathlib, the "object-oriented way of dealing with paths". Working with files is one of the most common things developers do. After all, you often want to read from ...