Exam 6: Files and Exceptions

An exception handler is a piece of code that is written using the try/except statement.

Which method could be used to strip specific characters from the end of a string?

Which method could be used to convert a numeric value to a string?

When a file has been opened using the 'r' mode specifier, which method will return the file's contents as a string?

How many types of files are there?

If the last line in a file is not terminated with a \n, the readline method will return the line without a \n.

Closing a file disconnects the communication between the file and the program.

The term _______________ file is used to describe a file to which data is written.

Which mode specifier will open a file but will not let you change the file or write to it?

A(n) _______________ gives information regarding the line number(s) that caused an exception.

Programmers usually refer to the process of _______________ data in a file as "writing data to" the file.

Strings can be written directly to a file with the write method, but numbers must be converted to strings before they can be written.

The ZeroDivisionError exception is raised when the program attempts to perform a division by zero.

Which method will return an empty string when it has attempted to read beyond the end of a file?