61 – One-shot file I/O

61 – One-shot file I/O#

For one-shot file I/O, like simply reading the full contents of a file or writing some text to a file, you can use the methods read_text and write_text from pathlib.Path.

Here is a short example:

from pathlib import Path

filepath = Path("hello_world.txt")

filepath.write_text("Python is cool!")

print(filepath.read_text())
# Python is cool!

Note that if the file exists, write_text will overwrite the contents of the file.

If you use a context manager and the built-in open you get more control, but these two methods get the job done most of the time.