Question

Write the file mode that will be used for opening the following file. Also, write the Python statement to open the following file:

a text file “example.txt” in both read and write mode

Answer 1

The mode that will be used for opening given file is -

Read and Write (<r+> or <+r>) : This mode is used to open the file for reading and writing. The File Offset is positioned at the beginning of the file. It will raise an I/O error if the file does not exists.

Example - file = open("example.txt","r+")
          file.close()