Writing Data to Files

Topics:

• Opening a file for writing
  • fout = open("filename","w",  [encoding="utf-8"]  )
• Command to write to file
  • fout.write( theString [+ "\n"]  )
• Closing the file
  • fin.close()
  • fout.close()

Materials:

• Files I will use in this lesson. To download these files you should right-click and "save as"
  • athletes_data.csv
  • athletes_sample.csv

Recording

• VIDEO - Using Filenames via function parameters (8 minutes)
• VIDEO - Writing to a file (27 minutes)
• VIDEO - Alternate Encodings (8 minutes)