File I/O

We are discussing file I/O for two reasons:

• In the world of Linux operating systems, everything is a file. Interaction with peripherals on the Raspberry Pi is similar to reading from/writing to a file. For example: In Chapter 12 , Communication Interfaces, we discussed serial port communication. You should be able to observe that serial port communication is like a file read/write operation.
• We use file I/O in some form in every project. For example: Writing sensor data to a CSV file or reading pre-configured options for a web server, and so on.

Hence, we thought it would be useful to discuss file I/O in Python as its own chapter (detailed documentation available from here: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/inputoutput.html#reading-and-writing-files) and discuss examples where it could play a role while developing applications on the Raspberry Pi Zero.

Reading from a file

Let's create a simple text file, read_file.txt with the following text: I am learning Python Programming using the...