GCSE – Lesson 38 – Reading text files

Curriculum KS4 Unit Lesson

Learners will be introduced to text files in this lesson. The focus will be on reading text files, and how the data from a text file can be used within a program. Learners will be stepped through the key methods that are used for reading text files in Python, before they complete two text file challenges.

Learning objectives

  • Determine the purpose of external data files
  • Read data from an external text file

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