Python Programming: Chapter 6 Files And Exceptions

Which step creates a connection between a file and a program?

True/False: If the last line in a file is not terminated with a n the readline method will return without a n.

Which method will return an empty string when it has attempted to read beyond the end of a file?

Which method could be used to convert a numeric value to a string?

How many types of files are there?

what happens when a piece of data is written to a file?

What do you call the process of retrieving data from a file?

True/False: It is possible to create while loop that determines when the end of a file has been reached.

True/False: Python allows the programmer to work with text and number files

Which mode specifier will erase the contents of the file if it already exist and create it if it does not exist?

True/False: An exception headler is a piece of code that is written using the try/except statement.

True/False: The ZeroDivisionError exception is raised when the program attempts to perform a division by zero

Which mode specifier will open a file but will not let you change the file or write to it?

True/False: if a file with the specified name already exists when the file is opened, and the file is opened in 'w' mode, then an alert will appear on the screen

Which method could be used to strip specific characters from the end of a string

True/False: Closing a file disconnects the communication between the file and the program

What type of file access jumps directly to any piece of data in a file without reading the data that that came before it?

Which of these is associated with a specific file and provides a way for the program to work with that file?

True/False: In python, there is nothing that can be done if the program tries to access a file that does not exist

A __________ access file is also known as a direct access file

Assume that the customer file references a file object, and the file was opened using the 'w' mode specifier. How would you write Mary Smith in the file

True/False: When a piece of data is read from a file, it is copied from the file into the program

True/False: Strings can be written directly to a file with the write method, but numbers must be converted to strings before they can be written