Recipe 2.1. Reading from a File
Recipe 2.2. Writing to a File
Recipe 2.3. Searching and Replacing Text in a File
Recipe 2.4. Reading a Specific Line from a File
Recipe 2.5. Counting Lines in a File
Recipe 2.6. Processing Every Word in a File
Recipe 2.7. Using Random-Access Input/Output
Recipe 2.8. Updating a Random-Access File
Recipe 2.9. Reading Data from zip Files
Recipe 2.10. Handling a zip File Inside a String
Recipe 2.11. Archiving a Tree of Files into a Compressed tar File
Recipe 2.12. Sending Binary Data to Standard Output Under Windows
Recipe 2.13. Using a C++-like iostream Syntax
Recipe 2.14. Rewinding an Input File to the Beginning
Recipe 2.15. Adapting a File-like Object to a True File Object
Recipe 2.16. Walking Directory Trees
Recipe 2.17. Swapping One File Extension for Another Throughout a Directory Tree
Recipe 2.18. Finding a File Given a Search Path
Recipe 2.19. Finding Files Given a Search Path and a Pattern
Recipe 2.20. Finding a File on the Python Search Path
Recipe 2.21. Dynamically Changing the PythonSearch Path
Recipe 2.22. Computing the Relative Path from One Directory to Another
Recipe 2.23. Reading an Unbuffered Character in a Cross-Platform Way
Recipe 2.24. Counting Pages of PDF Documents on Mac OS X
Recipe 2.25. Changing File Attributes on Windows
Recipe 2.26. Extracting Text from OpenOffice.org Documents
Recipe 2.27. Extracting Text from Microsoft Word Documents
Recipe 2.28. File Locking Using a Cross-Platform API
Recipe 2.29. Versioning Filenames
Recipe 2.30. Calculating CRC-64 Cyclic Redundancy Checks