A CSV file is a “comma-separated values” file. In plain English, this is a text file that contains an unusually large amount of data. More often than not, this is used in order to create databases of ...

Here is a high-level overview of how you might open various file types with Python. For now we will only look at reading this data, but there is almost always a corresponding technique with that ...

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 ...

Fortunately a plain text file is quite simple, and does not require any additional libraries or parameters to open it. (We will get into some examples of how to open more-complex files later.) All we ...