What you will learn

• Open, read, write, and close text files using various access modes and built-in function methods to manipulate persistent text data.

• Traverse and manage directory contents, modify paths, and copy or delete entire file trees using the os, pathlib, and shutil modules.

• Implement robust error handling strategies using try-except blocks, ordered exception hierarchies, and specialized custom exceptions.

• Data files for this course are provided in the first course of this specialization, "Intro to Python: Setup and Data Processing".