Question

writing to an existing file
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the file notes.txt contains the following text:
hello
some
notes.
how many sentences (text ended by a new line) would be in the file notes.txt after we run the following code?
my_notes = open(notes.txt, w)
my_notes.write(\some\
\)
my_notes.write(\more\
\)
my_notes.write(
otes\
\)
my_notes.write(\added\
\)
numeric answer
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Explanation:

Step1: Understand file opening mode

When opening a file in 'w' mode (write mode), it truncates the existing file. So the original content (`hello
some
notes.`) is erased.

Step2: Analyze the written content

The code writes `"some
more
notes
added
". Each
` represents a new - line. Counting the number of lines:
The text written is some, more, notes, added. The number of lines (sentences as per the definition in the problem) is calculated by counting the non - newline parts separated by `
`. There are 4 non - newline parts.

Answer:

4