Programming Bootcamp for Scientists #19

00:00 The Files chapter

00:45 File types: Text vs. Binary - Images, Excel files, text files

04:15 Open vs. Read vs. Load

06:15 Binary files: Images

10:50 Reading an Excel file

14:49 Open and read file (easy but not recommended)

20:45 Open and read file using "with" (recommended)

23:14 Read file remove newlines

27:22 Filename on the command line

28:00 Filehandle with return

33:29 Read all the lines into a list

35:45 Read all the characters of a file into a single string (slurp)

37:00 Not existing file

37:50 Open file exception handling

40:00 Exception hierarchy of Python

43:05 Open many files - exception handling

46:47 Writing to a file

48:23 Append to a file

51:30 Binary mode

53:57 Does the file exist? Is it a file?

50:50 Direct access of a line in a file

57:50 Exercise: count numbers

58:20 Exercise: strip newlines

58:35 Exercise: color selector

59:12 Exercise: ROT13

01:01:05 Exercise: combine lists