methods for open files

[Skaperen]

i am looking for the documentation of all methods (and attributes, if any) of open file objects. i want to see what all is available, and, of course, details of usage.

in the general case, many functions return objects that have methods and/or attributes. ehen it is a function in a module, usually the documentation for the module includes the documentation for objects returned by its functions (i have seen cases where this is apparently not true). is there a typical place to find such documentation for built-in functions?

[Gribouillis]

You can read the documentation of module io

[wavic]

Something like that:

In [1]: with open('39768.txt', 'r') as f:
    ...:     for method in dir(f):
    ...:         print(method, '\n'*2, method.__doc__, '\n'*2, '#'*40, '\n')

[Skaperen]

so if i create a class with all those methods and attributes working in a like way, or an appropriate subset for what i am doing, i'll have fake files and fake i/o?

[Gribouillis]

Often one only needs a small subset of these methods to create usable file-like objects, because functions that take a file parameter typically use a small part of the file API. For example a function that outputs XML data may take a file like object as paramater and use only its write() method. The function can be called with any object having a write method.

[Skaperen]

did we get an introduction from Gribouillis? he/she seems to be an experienced pythonista. i'm curious how much and what experience overall.