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Python

Posted by Anshul Laikar
Anshul Laikar
4,428 Points

What does the 'r' stand for?

In the code, Ken writes:

with open(input_file, 'r') as iris_data:
    irises = list(csv.reader(iris_data))

What does the 'r' stand for here?

1 Answer

joelearner
joelearner
54,915 Points

Hi Anshul,

Here the 'r' means the open function will read in the rows from the csv file. The next line of code appends the rows to a list.

Cheers!

Anshul Laikar
Anshul Laikar
4,428 Points

Thanks a bunch