WORKSHEET

DATA FILE HANDLING

1 Give one difference between Text file and Binary File
2 Write a Python statement to open a text file “DATA.TXT” so that new contents can
be written on it.
3 Write a Python statement to open a text file “DATA.TXT” so that new content can be
added to the end of file
4 Write a Python statement to open a text file “DATA.TXT” so that existing contents
can be read from file.
5 A file “MYDATA.TXT” is opened as
file1 = open(“MYDATA.TXT”)
Write a Python statement to close this file.
6 What is the different in file opening mode “a” and “w” ?
6 What is the significance of adding „+‟ with file opening mode, with context to „r+‟ ?
7 What is the difference between readline() and readlines() ?
8 What is the purpose of using flush() in file handling operations ?
9 What is the advantage of opening file using „with‟ keyword?
10 Considering the content stored in file “CORONA.TXT”
O Corona O Corona
Jaldi se tum Go na
Social Distancing ka palan karona
sabse 1 meter ki duri rakhona
Lockdown me ghar me ho to
Online padhai karona
 Write the output of following statements –
f = open("CORONA.TXT")
sr1 = # to read first line of file
str2 = # to read next line of file
str3 = # to read remaining lines of file

11 Considering the content stored in file “CORONA.TXT”

O Corona O Corona
Jaldi se tum Go na
Social Distancing ka palan karona
sabse 1 meter ki duri rakhona
Lockdown me ghar me ho to
Online padhai karona
Complete the missing statement using „for‟ loop to print all the lines of file
f = open(“CORONA.TXT”)
for :
print( )
12 What is the difference in write() and writelines()?
13 Considering the content stored in file “WORLDCUP.TXT”, write the output
India won the Cricket world cup of 1983
f = open(“WORLDCUP.TXT”)
print(f.read(2))
print(f.read(2))
print(f.read(4))
14 Write a function in python to count the number of lines in “POEM.txt” begins from
Upper case character.
For e.g if the content of file is :
O Corona O Corona
Jaldi se tum Go na
Social Distancing ka palan karona
sabse 1 meter ki duri rakhona
Lockdown me ghar me ho to
online padhai karona
Output should be: Lines starting from Capital letters: 4
15 Write a function in python to read lines from file “POEM.txt” and count how many
times the word “Corona” exists in file.
For e.g. if the content of file is :
O Corona O Corona
Jaldi se tum Go na
Social Distancing ka palan karona
sabse 1 meter ki duri rakhona
Lockdown me ghar me ho to
online padhai karona
O Corona O Corona
Jaldi se tum Go na
Output should be: Number of time word Corona occurs : 4

16 Write a function in python to read lines from file “POEM.txt” and display all those
words, which has two characters in it.
For e.g. if the content of file is
O Corona O Corona
Jaldi se tum Go na
Social Distancing ka palan karona
sabse 1 meter ki duri rakhona
Lockdown me ghar me ho to
online padhai karona
O Corona O Corona
Jaldi se tum Go na
Output should be : se Go na ka ki me me ho to se Go na
17 Write a function COUNT() in Python to read contents from file “REPEATED.TXT”, to
count and display the occurrence of the word “Catholic” or “mother”.
For example:
If the content of the file is “Nory was a Catholic because her mother was a Catholic , and
Nory‟s mother was a Catholic because her father was a Catholic , and her father was a
Catholic because his mother was a Catholic , or had been
 The function should display:
Count of Catholic, mother is 9
18 Write a function dispS() in Python to read from text file “POEM.TXT” and display
those lines which starts with “S”
For example:
If the content of the file is “

O Corona O Corona
Jaldi se tum Go na
Social Distancing ka palan karona
Sabse 1 meter ki duri rakhona
Lockdown me ghar me ho to
online padhai karona
O Corona O Corona
Jaldi se tum Go na
The function should display:
Social Distancing ka palan karona
Sabse 1 meter ki duri rakhona
19 Write a function COUNTSIZE() in Python to read the file “POEM.TXT” and display
size of file. For e.g. if the content of file is :
O Corona O Corona
Jaldi se tum Go na
Social Distancing ka palan karona
sabse 1 meter ki duri rakhona
Lockdown me ghar me ho to
online padhai karona
O Corona O Corona
Jaldi se tum Go na
The function should display
Size of file is 184
20 Write a python function ATOEDISP() for each requirement in Python to read the file
“NEWS.TXT” and
(I) Display “E” in place of all the occurrence of “A” in the word COMPUTER.
(II) Display “E” in place of all the occurrence of “A”:
I SELL COMPUTARS. I HAVE A COMPUTAR. I NEED A COMPUTAR. I WANT A
COMPUTAR. I USE THAT COMPUTAR. MY COMPUTAR CRASHED.
The function should display
 (I) I SELL COMPUTERS. I HAVE A COMPUTER. I NEED A COMPUTER. I WANT A
COMPUTER. I USE THAT COMPTUER. MY COMPUTER CRASHED.
(II) I SELL COMPUTERS. I HEVE E COMPUTER. I NEED E COMPUTER. I WENT E
COMPUTER. I USE THET COMPTUER. MY COMPUTER CRESHED.

BINARY FILE HANDLING & CSV

1 Letter is prefixed to store string in binary form
2 Write a Python statement to open a text file “DATA.TXT” in binary mode so that
new contents can be written on it.
3 Write a Python statement to open a text file “DATA.TXT” in binary mode so that
new content can be added to the end of file
4 Write a Python statement to open a text file “DATA.TXT” in binary mode so that
existing contents can be read from file.
5 function is used to convert string in binary form.
6 Consider the following Python code, and fill in the blank to complete the
program
f=open("India.txt","wb")
str="India is my
country"
f. (str.encode()) # statement to store the str in
filef.close()
7 function is used to fetch binary data from binary file
8 function is used to convert binary string to string
9 function is used in binary mode to send the read pointer to desired
position
 Note: seek() function of file object is used to reposition the cursor
Syntax : seek(number of bytes to read, seek_direction)
Seek_direction can be 0 – beginning, 1 – current position , 2- from last (can be in
negative also for backward traversing)
10 Consider a binary file which stores Name of employee, where each name
occupies 20 bytes (length of each name) in file irrespective of actual
characters. Now you have to write code to access the first name, 5th name and
last name.

f = open("Emp.txt","rb")
s= #code to get first record
print(s.decode())
# code to position at 5th record
s = f.read(size)
print(s.decode())
# code to position at last record
s = f.read(20)
print(s.decode())
f.close()
11 Write a Python statement to reposition the read pointer to 20 bytes back
from the current position.
f = open("Emp.txt","rb")
f.read(20)
f.read(20)
f.read(20)
f. # reposition read pointer to previous record
f.close()
12 Write a function RECCOUNT() to read the content of binary file „NAMES.DAT‟
and display number of records ( each name occupies 20 bytes in file ) in it.
For. e.g. if the content of file is:
SACHIN
AMIT
AMAN
SUSHIL
DEEPAK
HARI SHANKER
Function should display
Total Records are 6
13 Write a function SCOUNT() to read the content of binary file „NAMES.DAT‟ and
display number of records (each name occupies 20 bytes in file ) where name
begins from „S‟ in it.
 For. e.g. if the content of file is:
SACHIN
AMIT
AMAN
SUSHIL
DEEPAK
HARI SHANKER
Function should display
Total Names beginning from „S‟ are 2

14 To read and write collections like LIST, DICTIONARIES Python provides a module
called
15 is the process of converting structures to byte stream before writing to
file.
16 is the process of converting byte stream to original structure.
17 Pickling is done by the function
18 Unpickling is done by the function
19 Consider the following Python code and complete the missing statement:

import pickle
myfile = open("test.dat","wb")
d={1:100,2:200,3:300}
#statement to store dictionary d in file
myfile.close()
20 Consider the following Python code and complete the missing statement:
import pickle
myfile = open("test.dat","rb")
d= #statement to load dictionary data from file to „d‟
print(d)
myfile.close()
21 Python‟s standard streams are , ,
22 Python‟s standard streams are available in module
23 From the given path identify the type of each:
(i) C:\mydata\web\resources\img.jpg
(ii) ..\web\data.conf
24 Consider the following Binary file „Emp.txt‟, Write a function RECSHOW() to
display only those records who are earning more than 7000

24 CSV stands for

25 object is used to read data from csv file?
26 object is used to perform write operation on csv file.
27 function of writer object is used to send data to csv file to store.
28 Consider the following CSV file (emp.csv):
1,Peter,3500
2,Scott,4000
3,Harry,5000
4,Michael,2500
5,Sam,4200

Write Python function DISPEMP() to read the content of file emp.csv and display
only those records where salary is 4000 or above
29 Consider the following CSV file (emp.csv):
1,Peter,3500
2,Scott,4000
3,Harry,5000
4,Michael,2500
5,Sam,4200

Write a Python function DISPEMP() to read the content of file emp.csv and count
how many employee are earning less than 5000
30 Consider the following CSV file (emp.csv):
1,Peter,3500
2,Scott,4000
3,Harry,5000
4,Michael,2500
5,Sam,4200

Write a Python function SNAMES() to read the content of file emp.csv and display
the employee record whose name begins from „S‟ also show no. of employee with
first letter „S‟ out of total record.
Output should be:
2,Scott,4000
5,Sam,4200
Number of „S‟ names are 2/5
 if row[1][0].lower()=='s':
print(row[0],',',row[1],',',row[2])
count_s+=1
count_rec+=1
print("Number of 'S' names are ",count_s,"/",count_rec)
31 Write a python function CSVCOPY() to take sourcefile, targetfile as parameter
and create a targetfile and copy the contents of sourcefile to targetfile