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.. _tut-io:
****************
Input and Output
****************
There are several ways to present the output of a program; data can be printed
in a human-readable form, or written to a file for future use. This chapter will
discuss some of the possibilities.
.. _tut-formatting:
Fancier Output Formatting
=========================
So far we've encountered two ways of writing values: *expression statements* and
the :func:`print` function. (A third way is using the :meth:`write` method
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of file objects; the standard output file can be referenced as ``sys.stdout``.
See the Library Reference for more information on this.)
Often you'll want more control over the formatting of your output than simply
printing space-separated values. There are two ways to format your output; the
first way is to do all the string handling yourself; using string slicing and
concatenation operations you can create any layout you can imagine. The
string type has some methods that perform useful operations for padding
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strings to a given column width; these will be discussed shortly. The second
way is to use the :meth:`str.format` method.
The :mod:`string` module contains a :class:`~string.Template` class which offers
yet another way to substitute values into strings.
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One question remains, of course: how do you convert values to strings? Luckily,
Python has ways to convert any value to a string: pass it to the :func:`repr`
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or :func:`str` functions.
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The :func:`str` function is meant to return representations of values which are
fairly human-readable, while :func:`repr` is meant to generate representations
which can be read by the interpreter (or will force a :exc:`SyntaxError` if
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there is no equivalent syntax). For objects which don't have a particular
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representation for human consumption, :func:`str` will return the same value as
:func:`repr`. Many values, such as numbers or structures like lists and
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dictionaries, have the same representation using either function. Strings, in
particular, have two distinct representations.
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Some examples::
>>> s = 'Hello, world.'
>>> str(s)
'Hello, world.'
>>> repr(s)
"'Hello, world.'"
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>>> str(1/7)
'0.14285714285714285'
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>>> x = 10 * 3.25
>>> y = 200 * 200
>>> s = 'The value of x is ' + repr(x) + ', and y is ' + repr(y) + '...'
>>> print(s)
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The value of x is 32.5, and y is 40000...
>>> # The repr() of a string adds string quotes and backslashes:
... hello = 'hello, world\n'
>>> hellos = repr(hello)
>>> print(hellos)
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'hello, world\n'
>>> # The argument to repr() may be any Python object:
... repr((x, y, ('spam', 'eggs')))
"(32.5, 40000, ('spam', 'eggs'))"
Here are two ways to write a table of squares and cubes::
>>> for x in range(1, 11):
... print(repr(x).rjust(2), repr(x*x).rjust(3), end=' ')
... # Note use of 'end' on previous line
... print(repr(x*x*x).rjust(4))
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...
1 1 1
2 4 8
3 9 27
4 16 64
5 25 125
6 36 216
7 49 343
8 64 512
9 81 729
10 100 1000
>>> for x in range(1, 11):
... print('{0:2d} {1:3d} {2:4d}'.format(x, x*x, x*x*x))
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...
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1 1 1
2 4 8
3 9 27
4 16 64
5 25 125
6 36 216
7 49 343
8 64 512
9 81 729
10 100 1000
(Note that in the first example, one space between each column was added by the
way :func:`print` works: it always adds spaces between its arguments.)
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This example demonstrates the :meth:`str.rjust` method of string
objects, which right-justifies a string in a field of a given width by padding
it with spaces on the left. There are similar methods :meth:`str.ljust` and
:meth:`str.center`. These methods do not write anything, they just return a
new string. If the input string is too long, they don't truncate it, but
return it unchanged; this will mess up your column lay-out but that's usually
better than the alternative, which would be lying about a value. (If you
really want truncation you can always add a slice operation, as in
``x.ljust(n)[:n]``.)
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There is another method, :meth:`str.zfill`, which pads a numeric string on the
left with zeros. It understands about plus and minus signs::
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>>> '12'.zfill(5)
'00012'
>>> '-3.14'.zfill(7)
'-003.14'
>>> '3.14159265359'.zfill(5)
'3.14159265359'
Basic usage of the :meth:`str.format` method looks like this::
>>> print('We are the {} who say "{}!"'.format('knights', 'Ni'))
We are the knights who say "Ni!"
The brackets and characters within them (called format fields) are replaced with
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the objects passed into the :meth:`str.format` method. A number in the
brackets can be used to refer to the position of the object passed into the
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:meth:`str.format` method. ::
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>>> print('{0} and {1}'.format('spam', 'eggs'))
spam and eggs
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>>> print('{1} and {0}'.format('spam', 'eggs'))
eggs and spam
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If keyword arguments are used in the :meth:`str.format` method, their values
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are referred to by using the name of the argument. ::
>>> print('This {food} is {adjective}.'.format(
... food='spam', adjective='absolutely horrible'))
This spam is absolutely horrible.
Positional and keyword arguments can be arbitrarily combined::
>>> print('The story of {0}, {1}, and {other}.'.format('Bill', 'Manfred',
other='Georg'))
The story of Bill, Manfred, and Georg.
``'!a'`` (apply :func:`ascii`), ``'!s'`` (apply :func:`str`) and ``'!r'``
(apply :func:`repr`) can be used to convert the value before it is formatted::
>>> import math
>>> print('The value of PI is approximately {}.'.format(math.pi))
The value of PI is approximately 3.14159265359.
>>> print('The value of PI is approximately {!r}.'.format(math.pi))
The value of PI is approximately 3.141592653589793.
An optional ``':'`` and format specifier can follow the field name. This allows
greater control over how the value is formatted. The following example
rounds Pi to three places after the decimal.
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>>> import math
>>> print('The value of PI is approximately {0:.3f}.'.format(math.pi))
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The value of PI is approximately 3.142.
Passing an integer after the ``':'`` will cause that field to be a minimum
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number of characters wide. This is useful for making tables pretty. ::
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>>> table = {'Sjoerd': 4127, 'Jack': 4098, 'Dcab': 7678}
>>> for name, phone in table.items():
... print('{0:10} ==> {1:10d}'.format(name, phone))
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...
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Jack ==> 4098
Dcab ==> 7678
Sjoerd ==> 4127
If you have a really long format string that you don't want to split up, it
would be nice if you could reference the variables to be formatted by name
instead of by position. This can be done by simply passing the dict and using
square brackets ``'[]'`` to access the keys ::
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>>> table = {'Sjoerd': 4127, 'Jack': 4098, 'Dcab': 8637678}
>>> print('Jack: {0[Jack]:d}; Sjoerd: {0[Sjoerd]:d}; '
... 'Dcab: {0[Dcab]:d}'.format(table))
Jack: 4098; Sjoerd: 4127; Dcab: 8637678
This could also be done by passing the table as keyword arguments with the '**'
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notation. ::
>>> table = {'Sjoerd': 4127, 'Jack': 4098, 'Dcab': 8637678}
>>> print('Jack: {Jack:d}; Sjoerd: {Sjoerd:d}; Dcab: {Dcab:d}'.format(**table))
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Jack: 4098; Sjoerd: 4127; Dcab: 8637678
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This is particularly useful in combination with the built-in function
:func:`vars`, which returns a dictionary containing all local variables.
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For a complete overview of string formatting with :meth:`str.format`, see
:ref:`formatstrings`.
Old string formatting
---------------------
The ``%`` operator can also be used for string formatting. It interprets the
left argument much like a :c:func:`sprintf`\ -style format string to be applied
to the right argument, and returns the string resulting from this formatting
operation. For example::
>>> import math
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>>> print('The value of PI is approximately %5.3f.' % math.pi)
The value of PI is approximately 3.142.
More information can be found in the :ref:`old-string-formatting` section.
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.. _tut-files:
Reading and Writing Files
=========================
.. index::
builtin: open
object: file
:func:`open` returns a :term:`file object`, and is most commonly used with
two arguments: ``open(filename, mode)``.
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::
>>> f = open('workfile', 'w')
.. XXX str(f) is <io.TextIOWrapper object at 0x82e8dc4>
>>> print(f)
<open file 'workfile', mode 'w' at 80a0960>
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The first argument is a string containing the filename. The second argument is
another string containing a few characters describing the way in which the file
will be used. *mode* can be ``'r'`` when the file will only be read, ``'w'``
for only writing (an existing file with the same name will be erased), and
``'a'`` opens the file for appending; any data written to the file is
automatically added to the end. ``'r+'`` opens the file for both reading and
writing. The *mode* argument is optional; ``'r'`` will be assumed if it's
omitted.
Normally, files are opened in :dfn:`text mode`, that means, you read and write
strings from and to the file, which are encoded in a specific encoding (the
default being UTF-8). ``'b'`` appended to the mode opens the file in
:dfn:`binary mode`: now the data is read and written in the form of bytes
objects. This mode should be used for all files that don't contain text.
In text mode, the default when reading is to convert platform-specific line
endings (``\n`` on Unix, ``\r\n`` on Windows) to just ``\n``. When writing in
text mode, the default is to convert occurrences of ``\n`` back to
platform-specific line endings. This behind-the-scenes modification
to file data is fine for text files, but will corrupt binary data like that in
:file:`JPEG` or :file:`EXE` files. Be very careful to use binary mode when
reading and writing such files.
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.. _tut-filemethods:
Methods of File Objects
-----------------------
The rest of the examples in this section will assume that a file object called
``f`` has already been created.
To read a file's contents, call ``f.read(size)``, which reads some quantity of
data and returns it as a string or bytes object. *size* is an optional numeric
argument. When *size* is omitted or negative, the entire contents of the file
will be read and returned; it's your problem if the file is twice as large as
your machine's memory. Otherwise, at most *size* bytes are read and returned.
If the end of the file has been reached, ``f.read()`` will return an empty
string (``''``). ::
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>>> f.read()
'This is the entire file.\n'
>>> f.read()
''
``f.readline()`` reads a single line from the file; a newline character (``\n``)
is left at the end of the string, and is only omitted on the last line of the
file if the file doesn't end in a newline. This makes the return value
unambiguous; if ``f.readline()`` returns an empty string, the end of the file
has been reached, while a blank line is represented by ``'\n'``, a string
containing only a single newline. ::
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>>> f.readline()
'This is the first line of the file.\n'
>>> f.readline()
'Second line of the file\n'
>>> f.readline()
''
For reading lines from a file, you can loop over the file object. This is memory
efficient, fast, and leads to simple code::
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>>> for line in f:
... print(line, end='')
...
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This is the first line of the file.
Second line of the file
If you want to read all the lines of a file in a list you can also use
``list(f)`` or ``f.readlines()``.
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``f.write(string)`` writes the contents of *string* to the file, returning
the number of characters written. ::
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>>> f.write('This is a test\n')
15
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To write something other than a string, it needs to be converted to a string
first::
>>> value = ('the answer', 42)
>>> s = str(value)
>>> f.write(s)
18
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``f.tell()`` returns an integer giving the file object's current position in the file
represented as number of bytes from the beginning of the file when in `binary mode` and
an opaque number when in `text mode`.
To change the file object's position, use ``f.seek(offset, from_what)``. The position is computed
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from adding *offset* to a reference point; the reference point is selected by
the *from_what* argument. A *from_what* value of 0 measures from the beginning
of the file, 1 uses the current file position, and 2 uses the end of the file as
the reference point. *from_what* can be omitted and defaults to 0, using the
beginning of the file as the reference point. ::
>>> f = open('workfile', 'rb+')
>>> f.write(b'0123456789abcdef')
16
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>>> f.seek(5) # Go to the 6th byte in the file
5
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>>> f.read(1)
b'5'
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>>> f.seek(-3, 2) # Go to the 3rd byte before the end
13
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>>> f.read(1)
b'd'
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In text files (those opened without a ``b`` in the mode string), only seeks
relative to the beginning of the file are allowed (the exception being seeking
to the very file end with ``seek(0, 2)``) and the only valid *offset* values are
those returned from the ``f.tell()``, or zero. Any other *offset* value produces
undefined behaviour.
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When you're done with a file, call ``f.close()`` to close it and free up any
system resources taken up by the open file. After calling ``f.close()``,
attempts to use the file object will automatically fail. ::
>>> f.close()
>>> f.read()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: I/O operation on closed file
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Also document how inf and nan are formatted. #3404. ........ r65127 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-19 02:42:03 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 1 line Improve accuracy of gamma test function ........ r65128 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-19 02:43:00 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 1 line Add recipe to the itertools docs. ........ r65131 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 12:08:55 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 2 lines #3378: in case of no memory, don't leak even more memory. :) ........ r65133 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 14:39:10 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 3 lines #3302: fix segfaults when passing None for arguments that can't be NULL for the C functions. ........ r65134 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 14:46:12 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 2 lines #3303: fix crash with invalid Py_DECREF in strcoll(). ........ r65135 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 15:00:22 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 3 lines #3319: don't raise ZeroDivisionError if number of rounds is so low that benchtime is zero. ........ r65136 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 15:09:42 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 3 lines #3323: mention that if inheriting from a class without __slots__, the subclass will have a __dict__ available too. ........ r65139 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 15:48:44 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 2 lines Add ordering info for findall and finditer. ........ r65149 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-20 01:21:57 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line Fix compress() recipe in docs to use itertools. ........ r65150 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-20 01:58:47 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line Clean-up itertools docs and recipes. ........ r65151 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-20 02:22:08 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 9 lines fix issue3120 - don't truncate handles on 64-bit Windows. This is still messy, realistically PC/_subprocess.c should never cast pointers to python numbers and back at all. I don't have a 64-bit windows build environment because microsoft apparently thinks that should cost money. Time to watch the buildbots. It builds and passes tests on 32-bit windows. ........ r65155 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-20 13:50:29 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 2 lines #926501: add info where to put the docstring. ........ r65158 | neal.norwitz | 2008-07-20 21:35:23 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line Fix a couple of names in error messages that were wrong ........ r65159 | neal.norwitz | 2008-07-20 22:39:36 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line Fix misspeeld method name (negative) ........ r65176 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-07-21 23:36:24 +0200 (Mon, 21 Jul 2008) | 4 lines Increment version number in NEWS file, and move items that were added after 2.6b2. (I thought there was a script to automate this kind of updates) ........ r65177 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-07-22 00:00:38 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 5 lines Issue2378: pdb would delete free variables when stepping into a class statement. The problem was introduced by r53954, the correction is to restore the symmetry between PyFrame_FastToLocals and PyFrame_LocalsToFast ........ r65178 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-22 00:05:34 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line don't use assert statement ........ r65183 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-07-22 09:06:00 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 2 lines Fix buglet in fix for issue3381 ........ r65184 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-07-22 09:06:33 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 2 lines Fix build issue on OSX 10.4, somehow this wasn't committed before. ........ r65187 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 20:54:02 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line Remove out-of-date section on Exact/Inexact. ........ r65188 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 21:00:47 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line Tuples now have both count() and index(). ........ r65189 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 21:03:05 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line Fix credits for math.sum() ........ r65190 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 21:18:50 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line One more attribution. ........ r65192 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-23 01:44:37 +0200 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line remove unneeded import ........ r65194 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-23 15:25:06 +0200 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line use isinstance ........
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It is good practice to use the :keyword:`with` keyword when dealing with file
objects. This has the advantage that the file is properly closed after its
suite finishes, even if an exception is raised on the way. It is also much
shorter than writing equivalent :keyword:`try`\ -\ :keyword:`finally` blocks::
>>> with open('workfile', 'r') as f:
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Thanks to Philip Jenvey for the patch. ........ r65093 | vinay.sajip | 2008-07-18 11:00:00 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 1 line Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging configuration files. Thanks to Philip Jenvey for the patch. ........ r65094 | vinay.sajip | 2008-07-18 11:00:35 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 1 line Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging configuration files. Thanks to Philip Jenvey for the patch. ........ r65095 | vinay.sajip | 2008-07-18 11:01:10 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 1 line Issue #3389: Allow resolving dotted names for handlers in logging configuration files. Thanks to Philip Jenvey for the patch. ........ r65097 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-18 12:20:59 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 2 lines Remove duplicate entry in __all__. ........ r65098 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-18 12:29:30 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 2 lines Correct attribute name. ........ r65099 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-18 13:15:06 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jul 2008) | 3 lines Document the different meaning of precision for {:f} and {:g}. Also document how inf and nan are formatted. #3404. ........ r65127 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-19 02:42:03 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 1 line Improve accuracy of gamma test function ........ r65128 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-19 02:43:00 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 1 line Add recipe to the itertools docs. ........ r65131 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 12:08:55 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 2 lines #3378: in case of no memory, don't leak even more memory. :) ........ r65133 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 14:39:10 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 3 lines #3302: fix segfaults when passing None for arguments that can't be NULL for the C functions. ........ r65134 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 14:46:12 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 2 lines #3303: fix crash with invalid Py_DECREF in strcoll(). ........ r65135 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 15:00:22 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 3 lines #3319: don't raise ZeroDivisionError if number of rounds is so low that benchtime is zero. ........ r65136 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 15:09:42 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 3 lines #3323: mention that if inheriting from a class without __slots__, the subclass will have a __dict__ available too. ........ r65139 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-19 15:48:44 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jul 2008) | 2 lines Add ordering info for findall and finditer. ........ r65149 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-20 01:21:57 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line Fix compress() recipe in docs to use itertools. ........ r65150 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-20 01:58:47 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line Clean-up itertools docs and recipes. ........ r65151 | gregory.p.smith | 2008-07-20 02:22:08 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 9 lines fix issue3120 - don't truncate handles on 64-bit Windows. This is still messy, realistically PC/_subprocess.c should never cast pointers to python numbers and back at all. I don't have a 64-bit windows build environment because microsoft apparently thinks that should cost money. Time to watch the buildbots. It builds and passes tests on 32-bit windows. ........ r65155 | georg.brandl | 2008-07-20 13:50:29 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 2 lines #926501: add info where to put the docstring. ........ r65158 | neal.norwitz | 2008-07-20 21:35:23 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line Fix a couple of names in error messages that were wrong ........ r65159 | neal.norwitz | 2008-07-20 22:39:36 +0200 (Sun, 20 Jul 2008) | 1 line Fix misspeeld method name (negative) ........ r65176 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-07-21 23:36:24 +0200 (Mon, 21 Jul 2008) | 4 lines Increment version number in NEWS file, and move items that were added after 2.6b2. (I thought there was a script to automate this kind of updates) ........ r65177 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-07-22 00:00:38 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 5 lines Issue2378: pdb would delete free variables when stepping into a class statement. The problem was introduced by r53954, the correction is to restore the symmetry between PyFrame_FastToLocals and PyFrame_LocalsToFast ........ r65178 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-22 00:05:34 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line don't use assert statement ........ r65183 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-07-22 09:06:00 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 2 lines Fix buglet in fix for issue3381 ........ r65184 | ronald.oussoren | 2008-07-22 09:06:33 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 2 lines Fix build issue on OSX 10.4, somehow this wasn't committed before. ........ r65187 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 20:54:02 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line Remove out-of-date section on Exact/Inexact. ........ r65188 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 21:00:47 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line Tuples now have both count() and index(). ........ r65189 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 21:03:05 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line Fix credits for math.sum() ........ r65190 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-07-22 21:18:50 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jul 2008) | 1 line One more attribution. ........ r65192 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-23 01:44:37 +0200 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line remove unneeded import ........ r65194 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-07-23 15:25:06 +0200 (Wed, 23 Jul 2008) | 1 line use isinstance ........
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... read_data = f.read()
>>> f.closed
True
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File objects have some additional methods, such as :meth:`~file.isatty` and
:meth:`~file.truncate` which are less frequently used; consult the Library
Reference for a complete guide to file objects.
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.. _tut-json:
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Saving structured data with :mod:`json`
---------------------------------------
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.. index:: module: json
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Strings can easily be written to and read from a file. Numbers take a bit more
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effort, since the :meth:`read` method only returns strings, which will have to
be passed to a function like :func:`int`, which takes a string like ``'123'``
and returns its numeric value 123. When you want to save more complex data
types like nested lists and dictionaries, parsing and serializing by hand
becomes complicated.
Rather than having users constantly writing and debugging code to save
complicated data types to files, Python allows you to use the popular data
interchange format called `JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)
<http://json.org>`_. The standard module called :mod:`json` can take Python
data hierarchies, and convert them to string representations; this process is
called :dfn:`serializing`. Reconstructing the data from the string representation
is called :dfn:`deserializing`. Between serializing and deserializing, the
string representing the object may have been stored in a file or data, or
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sent over a network connection to some distant machine.
.. note::
The JSON format is commonly used by modern applications to allow for data
exchange. Many programmers are already familiar with it, which makes
it a good choice for interoperability.
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If you have an object ``x``, you can view its JSON string representation with a
simple line of code::
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>>> json.dumps([1, 'simple', 'list'])
'[1, "simple", "list"]'
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Another variant of the :func:`~json.dumps` function, called :func:`~json.dump`,
simply serializes the object to a :term:`text file`. So if ``f`` is a
:term:`text file` object opened for writing, we can do this::
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json.dump(x, f)
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To decode the object again, if ``f`` is a :term:`text file` object which has
been opened for reading::
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x = json.load(f)
This simple serialization technique can handle lists and dictionaries, but
serializing arbitrary class instances in JSON requires a bit of extra effort.
The reference for the :mod:`json` module contains an explanation of this.
.. seealso::
:mod:`pickle` - the pickle module
Contrary to :ref:`JSON <tut-json>`, *pickle* is a protocol which allows
the serialization of arbitrarily complex Python objects. As such, it is
specific to Python and cannot be used to communicate with applications
written in other languages. It is also insecure by default:
deserializing pickle data coming from an untrusted source can execute
arbitrary code, if the data was crafted by a skilled attacker.
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