Of course, some files are going to contain more complex formatting than others. For example, if you want to write a .Doc file in Python, you’ll come unstuck!

As you can see, we declare our new variable myFile and then use the built-in open and write commands to open and write to the file. The “w+” tells Python that we will be writing a new file.

Finally, you can write a program to extract zip files to disk in just a few lines. The following Python program extracts all zip files given as arguments to the current directory.