Section 31.9 Chapter Concept Summary
This chapter included the following concepts from computing.
- Text Files - Files in which data is stored as ASCII text. Thus even numbers are stored as strings. These files are easy for humans to work with, but less efficient for computers.
- Binary Files - Files in which data is stored in its raw binary form. This is more efficient for computers to work with, but very difficult for humans to work with unless they use special tools.
Subsection 31.9.1 Summary of Python Keywords and Functions
- Close - The
close
procedure closes a file after you are done processing it. - Open - The
open
procedure opens the passed file for either reading or writing. - Split - The
split
function can be called on a string to break it up at a specified character into a list of strings. For example, ifmessage = "Nora,Jones,15"
thenmessage.split(",")
would return['Nora', 'Jones', '15']
.
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