reading_and_writing_files.md

Reading and writing files

In this section, you will learn to read and write files and to extract information from them.

Goals

• read text files
• write text files
• extract information from a file
• list all files in a directory

The Dataset of Baby Names

For the next exercises, you will need the complete archive of baby names. You can download the files from http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html.