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What does readlines() return?
Short answer. A list, one item per line.
What do read() and readline() return?
A string.
Remember
| read, readline: a string |
| readlines: a list |
Read gives a string. So what does readlines give? Write puts one string in the file. Readlines gives a list, one item per line. Each item keeps its new line. Read and readline give a string. Readlines gives a list.
This clip is from the full lesson: Text File Handling: Open, Read, Write and Append — 9 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: CBSE Class 12 Computer Science (083), CBSE Class 12 Computer Science (083), CBSE Class 12 Computer Science (083), Cambridge IGCSE Grade 9 Computer Science (0478)
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