Python script for file handling - Read & Write

# Basic File Handling in Python - Read & Write

# coding: utf-8 # for Non-ASCII character support

# Writing to a file

f = open("<file path>/file_read_write.txt", "w");
f.write("Name                    Age                  \n")
f.write("-----------------------------------------\n")

mystring = "%s                   (%d) \n" % ("Ram", 32)
f.write(mystring)

f.close() 

# Reading from a file

f = open("<file path>/file_read_write.txt", "r") 
print f.read() 

f.close()

Note:
you may also try the following commands for selective read(s)
    print f.read(4)
    print f.readline()
    print f.readline(3)

How to validate an email address using Python Script?

Code snippet to validate the email id taken as an input via command line

# Python script to validate input email address

# for system input

import sys

print(sys.argv)

# for regular expression

import re

print "\n" 

email_id = raw_input("Please enter your email id: ")

if re.match("[^@]+@[^@]+\.[^@]+", email_id):

print "Hurray! you have entered a valid email id: ", email_id

else:

print "Better luck next time with a valid email id"