Top "File" questions

How do I check whether a file exists without exceptions?

How do I check if a file exists or not, without using the try statement?

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How to read a file line-by-line into a list?

How do I read every line of a file in Python and store each line as an element in a …

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How do I include a JavaScript file in another JavaScript file?

Is there something in JavaScript similar to @import in CSS that allows you to include a JavaScript file inside another …

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How do I copy a file in Python?

How do I copy a file in Python? I couldn't find anything under os.

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How to create a file in Linux from terminal window?

What's the easiest way to create a file in Linux terminal?

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Writing a list to a file with Python

Is this the cleanest way to write a list to a file, since writelines() doesn't insert newline characters? file.writelines(["%…

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How do you append to a file in Python?

How do you append to the file instead of overwriting it? Is there a special function that appends to the …

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Writing files in Node.js

I've been trying to find a way to write to a file when using Node.js, but with no success. …

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How do I create a Java string from the contents of a file?

I've been using the idiom below for some time now. And it seems to be the most wide-spread, at least …

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TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' when writing to a file in Python3

I've very recently migrated to Py 3.5. This code was working properly in Python 2.7: with open(fname, 'rb') as f: lines = […

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