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Python: Working with Files

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Learn how you can use Python to automate operating system tasks, aggregate data across multiple sources, save results to files, and level up your Python applications.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Automate file tasks with Python
  • Using CoderPad
1. Accessing Directory and File Details
  • Understand the file system
  • Navigate the file system with os module
  • Use os module to uncover path and file details
  • Filter path names with glob module
  • Recursively list all files in a directory
  • Understand Python's new pathlib module
  • Create directories in Python
  • Solution: Count the number of files
2. Processing Files
  • Open files in Python
  • Read text files in Python
  • Parse JSON files with Python
  • Read CSV files in Python with csv module and pandas
  • Extract text from PDF files using Python
  • Solution: Find most common word in files
3. Writing to Files
  • Write data to a file in Python
  • Move and rename files with Python
  • Copy with Python
  • Delete files with Python
  • Save tabular data with csv module
  • Write data to a JSON file in Python
  • Solution: Rename and Reorganize Photo Files
  • Solution: Parse JSON file with Python
4. Working with Archives and Temporary Files
  • Create ZIP archives with Python
  • Read from and extract ZIP archives
  • Open and read TAR archives
  • Extract from and write to TAR archives
  • Work with temporary files in Python
  • Solution: Find duplicate files
Conclusion
  • Continue to analyze data with Python

Taught by

Kathryn Hodge

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