Python: Working with Files

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.

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