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Chapter 11. Reading and Writing Data¶
CHAPTER OUTLINE¶
Motivation¶
Storing data and the results of your programming efforts is important for working over multiple sessions and sharing your results with collaborators. Since when Python closes, all the variables in the memory are lost, data must be stored in some other way. Sometimes data must also be readable by or written in a form that can be read by other programs.
This chapter shows you how you can use Python to read and write data in several common formats.