AQA A’Level SLR04 File handling
About this video
AQA Specification Reference
AS Level 3.2.1.3
A Level 4.2.1.3
This video explains the use of simple serial text file handling. It is assumed that students already have some experience of programming, and the purpose of this video is to outline the key stages of using files so that students are able to answer related questions in exams. This includes opening, reading, writing and closing a data file.
Key question:
- How do you read from and write to a simple text file?
00:00 File handling
00:08 Intro
00:13 File handling overview
00:25 Writing data to a file
00:38 Reading/searching data from a file
01:15 Reading data from text files
03:57 Writing data to text files
05:17 Summary of Python file handling commands
05:53 File handling example using Visual Basic
06:17 Binary (non-text) files
07:06 Key question
07:16 Outro
Last updated: 11.04.25
