The example files used here can be downloaded by clicking the file name: example1.txt, example1.csv, example1.xlsx. (For text format files, you can copy the content on the webpage and paste it into a ...

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...

Many readers replied to yesterday's item about long file names being truncated, especially with hexadecimal text substituted for the deleted portion of the name. Some of the replies overlap in the ...

I'm running some simulations using the joblib library. For that, I have some number of parameter combinations, each of which I run 100,000 times. I'd now like to write the result of each simulation to ...

Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...

Since the creation of python reading in files has become much easier with each update and with each added package. To work with csv and xlsx files the easiest package is the pandas package because it ...