A plain text file is used to store data that represents only characters or strings and doesn't consider any structured metadata. In Python, there's no need to import any external library to read and write text files. Python provides an built-in function to create, open, close, and write and read text files. To do the operations, there are different access modes to govern the type of operation possible in an opened file.
The access modes in Python are as follows:
- Read Only Mode ('r'): This mode opens a text file for the purpose. If that file doesn't exist, it raises an I/O error. We can also call this mode the default mode in which the file will open.
- Read and Write Mode ('r+'): This mode opens a text file for reading as well as writing purposes and raises an I/O error if the file does not exist.
- Write Only Mode (&apos...