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Let's take a look at the help documentation of open and you'll see that the open function gets a bunch

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of arguments.

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The first two are the most important ones, we already used file which is the path to the file object

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and for these other ones we use their default values which means for modes we used r, r means read.

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Therefore this code here is the same as this.

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So you get the same output. Which one should you use?
Well, to make the code simpler and shorter

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this is fine, to make the code more explicit in terms of readability so that others can see that this

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is about reading the code,

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then you'd use this, either way is fine.

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Now what can we use for writing for writing you'd use a W for write and let me create a new file under

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the files folder.

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Call it vegetables, so a vegetables file doesn't exist currently in my files folder.

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It would be created by the open function and then in that empty file we were going to write something.

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Write.

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Tomato.

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Of course the contents variable doesn't make sense here because we are not fetching some data from the

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file we're just writing there.

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So let's keep it like that.

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Save it, executes, and a vegetables.txt file has been created in my computer with the tomato string

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there.

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Let me put it here.

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So the read method looks for an existing file.

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The write method creates a new file, and I should warn you that if the file exists like in this case

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fruits.txt is there,

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if that is the case, Python will overwrite the existing file.

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So if you open fruits.txt now, you'll see that you have this new contents of the file so the

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existing content is discarded.
How can we write more lines?

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Well you have to use the \n special string which creates brake lines.

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Onion, executes.

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So this is fruits.txt.

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and you get these three lines as we expected something you should know is that you can apply more than

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one method to the open file.

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Let's write garlic here, now intentionally I didn't do something I was supposed to do to show you what

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happens.

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So garlic was immediately put after onion because there was no space or a \n operator

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there.

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If I put a space here you of course have gets a space visit between onion and garlic.

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But what you want instead is you want that after each line you write you want a \n,  and in that

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case you'd get the correct output.

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So now you're probably wondering well I have this fruits.txt file? I don't want to overwrite.

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How can I actually add another line under this existing lines?
And I'll show you how to do that

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in the next video.