Python for Absolute Beginners Transcripts
Chapter: Reading and writing files in Python
Lecture: Practice exercises
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Well that's enough reading and writing files for me.
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It's time for you to read and write to some files yourself.
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So you're going to do some similar things
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that we've done here, work with JSON files
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work with lines of texts and plain text files.
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Let's go see what I got on deck for you.
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Over here in chapter nine working with files
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you've got the standard introduction
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threw in a few concepts for you, determining the full
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path of a file using os.path, reading a file
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using with open file name r, write in to a file
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make it a w, working with a JSON, import this
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loading from and writing to various files
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and finally, the exercises that you're going to do
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are going to be going back to the games that we created.
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So, the Tic Tac Toe game from back in CH08
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the one about problem solving at least
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whatever number that turns out to be
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at the end of this course, and work with that.
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If you happen to have gotten all the way
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through the previous chapters exercises
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and you did build Connect Four, that one's yours.
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Go ahead and use that instead.
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The idea, we'll work with either of them.
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What we are going to do is just create a leaderboard.
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Use JSON format if you like.
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That works out really easy so that's what we did.
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So a leaderboard, create that, and update it
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as you win and play.
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Then add a running log file.
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This can just be appending to a text file
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nothing about it fancy, logging frameworks
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and just do that.
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That will help you practice appending to text files.
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That'll be great.
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If you want to, and you get to the end
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and you want to try it out, you could use Logbook.
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It's going to cover some of the topics we cover
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in the external libraries package as well.
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So, you don't have to do it now
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but if you're feeling ambitious
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feel free to go though their quick start
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and give it a shot.
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If it doesn't work, don't worry.
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We'll talk about more of it for the next chapter.
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But this is a really cool library
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that helps you do logging the right way
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and it's what we use
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and it's been working great for years.
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Alright, get out there and have some fun
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adding file IL to the games that you built.
