Input and output

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Basic

• Reading files:
  • open, close
  • binary vs text mode (encoding)
  • read, append, overwrite modes
  • writing and reading with iteration or with read_lines/write_lines
• Reading and writing csv with the built-in csv module
• Managing Paths with pathlib
  • creating paths
  • resolving paths
  • path manipulation (suffix, appending, renaming, globbing, ...)

Advanced

• Streams with the io module
• Implementing file-like behaviour on other objects (adding open/close methods to other resources)
• Context managers for resource management (with keyword)
  • understanding context managers
  • implementing context managers to handle custom resources
• Databases
  • local databases with sqlite3 module
  • database querying with pandas (maybe, it's not part of Python stdlib)