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Python has a built-in function, open(), for opening a file on disk. The open() function returns a file object, which has methods and attributes for getting information about and manipulating the file.
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So far, all we know is that Python has a built-in function called open(). The open() function returns a file object, which has methods and attributes for getting information about and manipulating the file.
>>> a_file = open('examples/chinese.txt', encoding='utf-8')
->>> a_file.name
+>>> a_file.name ②
'examples/chinese.txt'
->>> a_file.mode
+>>> a_file.mode ③
'r'
->>> a_file.encoding
+>>> a_file.encoding ④
'utf-8'
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