What is an MDF file? [closed]

SQL Server databases use two files – an MDF file, known as the primary database file, which contains the schema and data, and a LDF file, which contains the logs. See wikipedia. A database may also use secondary database file, which normally uses a .ndf extension. As John S. indicates, these file extensions are purely convention … Read more

Using “with open() as file” method, how to write more than once? [duplicate]

The w flag means “open for writing and truncate the file”; you’d probably want to open the file with the a flag which means “open the file for appending”. Also, it seems that you’re using Python 2. You shouldn’t be using the b flag, except in case when you’re writing binary as opposed to plain text content. In Python 3 your … Read more

How to open a file using the open with statement

Python allows putting multiple open() statements in a single with. You comma-separate them. Your code would then be: And no, you don’t gain anything by putting an explicit return at the end of your function. You can use return to exit early, but you had it at the end, and the function will exit without it. (Of course with functions that return … Read more

How do I copy a file in Python?

shutil has many methods you can use. One of which is: Copy the contents of the file named src to a file named dst. Both src and dst need to be the entire filename of the files, including path. The destination location must be writable; otherwise, an IOError exception will be raised. If dst already exists, it will be replaced. Special files such as character or block … Read more

How do I copy a file in Python?

shutil has many methods you can use. One of which is: Copy the contents of the file named src to a file named dst. Both src and dst need to be the entire filename of the files, including path. The destination location must be writable; otherwise, an IOError exception will be raised. If dst already exists, it will be replaced. Special files such as character or block … Read more