Outline for February 14, 2018

Reading: §7

1. Searching a list
   1. Example use: linear search [linsearch.py]
   2. Example use: recursive linear search [rlinsearch.py]
2. Files
   1. What is a file?
   2. What can you do with it? (For example, read, write, append)
   3. Types of files (text, binary)
3. File Input and Output for text files
   1. Opening and closing: open(filename, mode), close()
   2. Reading: readline(), readlines(), read(), read(n)
   3. Writing: write(str), writelines(list)
4. Examples
   1. Print out a named file [fileio1.py]
   2. Print out a named file and prepend line numbers [fileio2.py]
   3. Store the output in filename.lst [fileio3.py]
5. Examples
   1. Put lines in a file in random order [randlines.py]
   2. Read in a list of words from a file, then search it as requested; similar to linear search program [search-1.py]
   3. Now see how many words you checked total [search-1c.py]

Matt Bishop Department of Computer Science University of California at Davis Davis, CA 95616-8562 USA

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