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Adapted and simplified from Franck Albinet's exercises available here. Also presented by NSRC at APRICOT 2018.

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For further reference on reading and writing files in Python, look at the official documentation here.

But in In essence to handle files in Python, you first need to open a file (even if it does not exist yet)


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python f = open('log/my_first_file.log', 'w')

the open function takes as argument: file name 'log/my_first_file.log' (relative or full path) and mode: read, write, ...

Once open, you get a file object to play with and hence can start writing data in it: 

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