VCE Software Development U3O1: Data sources and files
Students compare the structure and uses of TXT, CSV and XML files and read, parse and write them in Python.
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Modules (12)
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Plain text (TXT) files: structure
2
Delimited (CSV) files: structure
3
XML files: structure
4
Reasons for using TXT, CSV and XML data sources
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File Operations – Open
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File Operations – Read
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File Operations – Write
8
Files – Error Handling (try/except)
9
Splitting a line into fields with .split()
10
Reading a CSV file into an array of records
11
Writing records to a CSV file
12
Reading an XML file with ElementTree
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