Python Programming

In our course, we only covered processing text, JSON, Pickle and CSV files. There are also different modules/packages/frameworks for processing other types of files. Here are some as a reference. This is purely for your further information. Use them when you need them! You will not need to use them for your final exam.

Comes with the Python Standard Library:

• xml.etree.ElementTree - creating and reading XML files
• wave and aifc – reading from and writing to audio files
• tarfile – reading and writing tar archive files
• zipfile – working with ZIP archives
• configparser – creating and parsing configuration files

Third party tools for reading and manipulating different files (you will need to install them separately):

• PyYAML - to process YAML, which a stripped down version of JSON. Used quite a lot as configuration files. This website also uses PyYAML to generate some of the elements you see (for example, the quizzes are actually written and stored in YAML format).
• PyPDF2 – PDF toolkit to process PDF files
• Pillow – image reading and manipulation