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Steps for binary file processing
To write data to a file To read data from a file
1. Create a file using open () 1. Open a file in ‘rb’ mode
in binary access mode
(‘wb’) 2. Use load () method to
2. Take input from user de serialize object from
(usually in
list,tuple,dictionary data file object
types) Syntax:
3. Use dump() of pickle
module object=pickle.load(file
to serialize the object)
object(list/tuple/dictionary
into byte stream) 3. Process it
• Syntax:
pickle.dump(object,file
object)