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Python Program to Append Text to a File
In this article, you will learn and get code to append some content (text) into a file using a Python program. Here are the list of programs:
- Append Text to a File
- Append Text to a File and Display the Content of File
Things to do Before Program
Because the program given below appends text (string or content) entered by user to a file say fresherearth.txt. Therefore before executing the program, we've to create a file named fresherearth.txt with some content say:
Hello Python, I'm a File My Name is fresherearth.txt
Save this file in the current directory. The current directory means the directory where you are saving your Python source code. That is, the file and the Python program (to append text to the file) must be available in the same folder. Here is the snapshot of the folder where we've saved this file:
And here is the snapshot of opened file, fresherearth.txt:
Now let's create a python program to append new content at last of this file.
Append Text to a File in Python
This Python program asks from user to enter the name of file and then asks to enter the text (in one or more lines) to append it to the given file as shown in the program given here:
print("Enter the Name of File: ") fileName = str(input()) fileHandle = open(fileName, "a") print("Enter the Text to Append in Given File: ") while True: text = str(input()) if len(text)>0: fileHandle.write("\n") fileHandle.write(text) else: break fileHandle.close()
Here is its sample run:
Now enter the name of file say fresherearth.txt and press ENTER
. Here is the output you will see:
Then enter some texts (contents) say:
- This is first append's first line
- This is first append's second line
- This is first append's third line
These three lines entered in a way that, enter the first line of text, then press ENTER
, again enter
second line of text, press ENTER
key and so on. Finally press ENTER
key without typing anything
to stop appending the content in the file. Here is the sample run with exactly same user inputs (as given above):
Now if you open the same file, fresherearth.txt, then these content gets appended (added) to the file. Here is the snapshot of the opened file, fresherearth.txt:
Note - The open() function is used to open a file. It returns a file object. It takes two arguments. The first argument is the name of file and the second argument is its opening mode.
Note - The break keyword is used (in above program) to exit from the while loop
Note - The write() function is used to write content to a file using its object say fileHandle
Note - Don't forgot to close the file's object using close() function
Append Text to File and Display the File
This program is similar to previous program with an extra feature. The extra feature is, this program appends the content entered by user to the given file and then asks from user whether they wants to see the new content of file or not.
print(end="Enter the Name of File: ") fileName = str(input()) try: fileHandle = open(fileName, "r") print("This File is Available!") fileHandle.close() fileHandle = open(fileName, "a") print(end="\nEnter Texts to Append: ") while True: text = str(input()) if len(text)>0: fileHandle.write("\n") fileHandle.write(text) else: break fileHandle.close() print("Texts Appended to the File Successfully!") print(end="Want to see the Content of File (y/n): ") ch = input() if ch=='y': fileHandle = open(fileName, "r") for content in fileHandle: print(end=content) else: print("Exiting...") except IOError: try: fileHandle = open(fileName, "a") print("File Created Successfully!") print(end="\nEnter Texts to Append (Add): ") while True: text = str(input()) if len(text)>0: fileHandle.write(text) fileHandle.write("\n") else: break fileHandle.close() print("Texts Appended to the File Successfully!") print(end="Want to see the Content of File (y/n): ") ch = input() if ch=='y': fileHandle = open(fileName, "r") for content in fileHandle: print(end=content) else: print("Exiting...") except IOError: print("Error Occurred!") print()
Now enter the name of same file, that is fresherearth.txt and press ENTER
. Here is the output:
Enter the following text, one by one:
- This is second append's first line
- This is second append's second line
- This is second append's third line
Supply exactly these inputs and press ENTER
key without typing any text. Here is the output you will see:
Now type y and press ENTER
key to see the content of the file, fresherearth.txt.
Otherwise press n to exit from the program. Here is the sample output with y as choice:
And here is the file, fresherearth.txt after executing all the things given above:
Here is another sample run with user input say fresherearth.html, the file that doesn't exist in the current directory, with some content and then y as choice to see the content of file:
Note - The a (append) file opening mode opens a file. If file doesn't exist, then a new file with same name gets created automatically.
Now if you open this newly created file say fresherearth.html through previous program's sample run, in a web browser like Google Chrome, here is the output you will see:
Note - Because the file is of HTML type, therefore this output is produced. To learn more about it, refer to HTML Tutorial to get its in-depth detail.
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