Records and files

Files and records

A text file stores lines of text. A record is one line that holds several fields, often separated by commas: Aisha,15,Leeds holds a name, an age and a town.

# Reading a file in Python
file = open("members.txt", "r")
for line in file:
    line = line.strip()
    print(line)
file.close()

# Writing to a file
file = open("scores.txt", "w")
file.write("Aisha,42\n")
file.close()

OCR style uses openRead, readLine(), endOfFile() and close(); AQA papers describe the file in words. In the questions here the lines have already been read into a list of strings, one string per line, so you can concentrate on what to do with them.