Python - File Handling

f = open("file_name.extension")
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returns a file object

We didn't instruct the interpreter to read the contents inside of the opened file
The thing here is, we are only opening a file.

f.read()

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with open("welcome.txt") as file:
   data = file.read()
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This might be wrong, its only on my obversation

• read() – It turns every text into individual characters.
• readline() – read the text file line by line and return all the lines as strings.
• readlines() – read all the lines of the text file and return them as a list of strings.

how do we remove the \n in python read?
The strip() method in Python helps in omitting the spaces that are present at the beginning (leading) and at the end (trailing). Besides white spaces, the strip() method also includes the newline characters.

A string, define which mode you want to open the file in:
"r" - Read - Default value. Opens a file for reading, error if the file does not exist

"a" - Append - Opens a file for appending, creates the file if it does not exist

"w" - Write - Opens a file for writing, creates the file if it does not exist

"x" - Create - Creates the specified file, returns an error if the file exist

In addition you can specify if the file should be handled as binary or text mode
"t" - Text - Default value. Text mode
"b" - Binary - Binary mode (e.g. images)