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What is an output file?

What three steps must be taken by a program when it uses a file?

What are the two types of file access? What is the difference between these two?

If a file already exists, what happens to it if you try to open it as an output file (using the 'w' mode)?

What is the purpose of opening a file?

What is the purpose of closing a file?

What is a file’s read position? Initially, where is the read position when an input file is opened?

In what mode do you open a file if you want to write data to it, but you do not want to erase the file’s existing contents? When you write data to such a file, to what part of the file is the data written?

What does it mean when the readline method returns an empty string?

If an exception is raised and the program does not handle it with a try/except statement, what happens?