Python practice File Handling Programs Class 12( on text file handling)
[1] Create a text file “intro.txt” in python and ask the user to write a single line of text by user
input.
def program1():
f = open("intro.txt","w")
text=input("Enter the text:")
f.write(text)
f.close()
program1()
[2] Create a text file “MyFile.txt” in python and ask the user to write separate 3 lines with
three input statements from the user.
def program2():
f = open("MyFile.txt","w")
line1=input("Enter the text:")
line2=input("Enter the text:")
line3=input("Enter the text:")
new_line="\n"
f.write(line1)
f.write(new_line)
f.write(line2)
f.write(new_line)
f.write(line3)
f.write(new_line)
f.close()
program2()
f.write(new_line)
f.write(line3)
f.write(new_line)
f.close()
program2()
[3] Write a program to read the contents of both the files created in the above programs and
merge the contents into “merge.txt”. Avoid using the close() function to close the files.
def program3():
with open("MyFile.txt","r") as f1:
data=f1.read()
with open("intro.txt","r") as f2:
data1=f2.read()
with open("merge.txt","w") as f3:
f3.write(data)
f3.write(data1)
program3()
[4] Count the total number of upper case, lower case, and digits used in the text file
“merge.txt”.
def program4():
with open("merge.txt","r") as f1:
data=f1.read()
cnt_ucase =0
cnt_lcase=0
cnt_digits=0
for ch in data:
if ch.islower():
cnt_lcase+=1
if ch.isupper():
cnt_ucase+=1
if ch.isdigit():
cnt_digits+=1
print("Total Number of Upper Case letters are:",cnt_ucase)
print("Total Number of Lower Case letters are:",cnt_lcase)
print("Total Number of digits are:",cnt_digits)
program4()
[5] Write a program to count a total number of lines and count the total number of lines
starting with ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’. (Consider the merge.txt file)
def program5():
with open("merge.txt","r") as f1:
data=f1.readlines()
cnt_lines=0
cnt_A=0
cnt_B=0
cnt_C=0
for lines in data:
cnt_lines+=1
if lines[0]=='A':
cnt_A+=1
if lines[0]=='B':
cnt_B+=1
if lines[0]=='C':
cnt_C+=1
print("Total Number of lines are:",cnt_lines)
print("Total Number of lines strating with A are:",cnt_A)
print("Total Number of lines strating with B are:",cnt_B)
print("Total Number of lines strating with C are:",cnt_C)
program5()
[6] Find the total occurrences of a specific word from a text file:
def program6():
cnt = 0
word_search = input("Enter the words to search:")
with open("merge.txt","r") as f1:
for data in f1:
words = data.split()
for word in words:
if (word == word_search):
cnt+=1
print(word_search, "found ", cnt, " times from the file")
program6()
Python File Handling Programs based on read(), readline() and readlines() functions.
[7] Read first n no. letters from a text file, read the first line, read a specific line from a text
file.
def program7():
cnt = 0
n = int(input("Enter no. characters to read:"))
with open("merge.txt","r") as f1:
line1=f1.readline()
print("The first line of file:",line1)
nchar=f1.read(n)
print("First n no. of characters:", nchar)
nline=f1.readlines()
print("Line n:",nline[n])
program7()
[8] Replace all spaces from text with – (dash).
def program8():
cnt = 0
n = int(input("Enter no. characters to read:"))
with open("merge.txt","r") as f1:
data = f1.read()
data=data.replace(' ','-')
with open("merge.txt","w") as f1:
f1.write(data)
program8()
[9] Write a program in python to replace all word ‘the’ by another word ‘them’ in a file
‘poem.txt’
[10] Write a program in python to replace a character by another character in a file ‘story.txt’.
(Accepts both the characters from the user)
[11] Write a program in python to remove all duplicate lines from the file ‘story.txt’
[12] Write a program in python to display only unique words from the file ‘story.txt’
[13] Write a program in python to count the frequency of each vowels in a file ‘ task.txt’
[14] Write a Python program to count those lines from the file ‘div.txt’ which are starting
from ‘T’ or ‘M’
[15] Write a python program to count those lines from the text file div.txt not starting from
‘M’
[16] write a python program to display those words ending with alphabet ‘m’ from the text
file div.txt.
[17] Write a program in python to read all lines of the file ‘data.txt’ . using readline only.
[18] Write a program in python to copy the entire content from the file data.txt to story.txt
[19] Write a program in python to copy the alternate lines from the file ‘data.txt ‘ to story.txt
[20] Write a program in python to read the entire content from the file data.txt and copy only
those words starting by vowels.
[21] Write a program in python to read the entire content from the text file data.txt and copy
only those words in separate lines to ‘story.txt which are starting from lower case alphabets.
[22] Write a program in python to read the file start.txt and display the entire content after
removing leading and trailing spaces.
[23] Write a python program to print all numbers present in the given text file sumit.txt.
[24]Write a python program to print the second line and second last line from the text tile
data.txt
[25] Write a program to know the cursor position and print the text according to below-given
specifications:
1. Print the initial position
2. Move the cursor to 4th position
3. Display next 5 characters
4. Move the cursor to the next 10 characters
5. Print the current cursor position
6. Print next 10 characters from the current cursor position
def program9():
f = open("merge.txt","r")
print(f.tell())
f.seek(4,0)
print(f.read(5))
f.seek(10,0)
print(f.tell())
print(f.seek(7,0))
print(f.read(10))
program9()
In the next section of Python File Handling Programs Class 12 you will find programs based
on high-order thinking skills.
[26] Append the contents in entered by the user in the text file:
def program10():
text = input("Enter text to append in the file:")
with open("merge.txt","a") as f1:
f1.write(text)
pro
[27] Read the contents of file in reverse order:
def program11():
for i in reversed(list(open("merge.txt","r"))):
print(i.rstrip())
program11()
[28] Replace multiple spaces with single space in a text file.
def program12():
f1 = open("merge.txt","rt")
f2 = open("merge1.txt","wt")
for line in f1:
f2.write(' '.join(line.split()))
f1.close()
f2.close()
program12()
Method 2:
import re
def program12():
f1 = open("merge.txt","rt")
f2 = open("merge3.txt","wt")
for line in f1:
f2.write(re.sub('\s+',' ',line))
f1.close()
f2.close()
program12()
[29] Read a text file line by line and display each word separated by a #.
f=open("MyFile.txt")
d=f.read()
s=''
for i in d:
s+=i.replace(' ','#')
print(s)
f.close()
[30] Read a text file and display the number of vowels/consonants/uppercase/lowercase
characters in the file.
f=open("MyFile.txt")
d=f.read()
v=0
c=0
u=0
l=0
for i in d:
if i.isupper():
u+=1
elif i.islower():
l+=1
if i.lower() in 'aeiou':
v+=1
elif i.isspace():
pass
elif i.lower() not in 'aeiou':
c+=1
print("Vowels:",v)
print("Consonants:",c)
print("Uppers:",u)
print("Lowers:",l)
f.close()
[31] Remove all the lines that contain the character ‘a’ in a file and write it to another file.
f1=open("MyFile.txt")
f2=open("Temp.txt",'w')
l=f1.readlines()
for i in l:
if 'a' not in i:
f2.write(i)
f1.close()
f2.close()
