Question

Are there any other commands than open() in python to edit files (on Windows or *NIX).

Answer 1

You can get this kind of information very fast and interactively if you’re using ipython:

In [5]: file. #[tab pressed]
file.close       file.isatty      file.read        file.tell
file.closed      file.mode        file.readinto    file.truncate
file.encoding    file.mro         file.readline    file.write
file.errors      file.name        file.readlines   file.writelines
file.fileno      file.newlines    file.seek        file.xreadlines
file.flush       file.next        file.softspace   

In [5]: print file.flush.__doc__
flush() -> None.  Flush the internal I/O buffer.

In [6]:

but I still recommend checking the documention, section 7.2.

Also, to construct a file object (get an object of type ‘file’), “open” is the only possibility in python3 (in python2 there is also “file”, which is sort of alias to “open”)