Today I learned you can use pathlib
to read the contents of a file.
pathlib
pathlib
is an amazing module from the Python 3 Standard Library.
I have been tweeting about pathlib
and recently I shared a mini cookbook
on it:
The Python π Standard Library is one of the reasons I love π Python.
β Rodrigo ππ (@mathsppblog) November 6, 2021
ππ dealing with your filesystem is super simple.
All you have to do is use the `pathlib` module.
This short thread is a mini `pathlib` cookbook π³, showing some example usages of `pathlib`.
Ready π? pic.twitter.com/kWacRATY1w
Adam Johnson proceeded to comment on that thread,
telling me about two methods I didn't know: .read_text
and .read_bytes
.
As it turns out, pathlib.Path
can also be used to read the full contents of a file!
Here is an example text file I have in C:/tmp/foo.txt
:
This
is
just
some
text!
Using pathlib
to read it is easy:
>>> from pathlib import Path
>>> Path("C:/tmp/foo.txt").read_text()
'This\nis\n\njust\nsome\ntext!'
>>> Path("C:/tmp/foo.txt").read_bytes()
b'This\r\nis\r\n\r\njust\r\nsome\r\ntext!'
It's interesting to notice, above,
how the .read_text
method only returns "\n"
for newlines
but .read_bytes
returns "\r\n"
on each newline
(I'm using a Windows machine).
That's it for now! Stay tuned and I'll see you around!
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