CMPT 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Text Editor, External Storage

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Computing Science
• Course: CMPT 120
• Professor: Anne Lavergne

Document Summary

Think of it when closing word, u want the operating sys to keep the file stored for the next time u want to access. Text files- sequence of characters that are readable to humans, can be viewed in a text editor. Binary files- sequence of characters readable to computers, cannot be viewed in text editor. is a string, ask user to enter filename or assign filename to a var at top of program. is optional, string, describe way in which file be used. Its the directory that contains the py program that is running. If filename is stored in another directory we must add the proper path t it. If we are currently in lab 8 and we want to access soemthing ina dif file location then acces like dis. , describes way a file is to be used.