From 77ab89a4b3ead12172230781e61bed629e12f7b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Landry <benlandry5@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 21:14:03 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Added write to and read from a file syntax

---
 python3.html.markdown | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/python3.html.markdown b/python3.html.markdown
index ef78ce37..4cabb27b 100644
--- a/python3.html.markdown
+++ b/python3.html.markdown
@@ -505,6 +505,26 @@ with open("myfile.txt") as f:
     for line in f:
         print(line)
 
+# Writing to a file
+contents = {"aa": 12, "bb": 21}
+with open("myfile1.txt", "w+") as file:
+    file.write(str(contents))        # writes a string to a file
+
+with open("myfile2.txt", "w+") as file:
+    file.write(json.dumps(contents)) # writes an object to a file
+
+# Reading from a file
+with open('myfile1.txt', "r+") as file:
+    contents = file.read()           # reads a string from a file
+print(contents)
+# print: {"aa": 12, "bb": 21}
+
+with open('myfile2.txt', "r+") as file:
+    contents = json.load(file)       # reads a json object from a file
+print(contents)     
+# print: {"aa": 12, "bb": 21}
+
+
 # Python offers a fundamental abstraction called the Iterable.
 # An iterable is an object that can be treated as a sequence.
 # The object returned by the range function, is an iterable.