## File Operation In Python
A file is a named position used for storing data. For example `main.py` is a file that is constantly used to store Python code.
### Opening Files in Python Programming
In Python program, we need to open a file first to perform any operations on it—we use the **open()** function to do so. Let’s look at an example-
If we have a file named `file1.txt`.
<img src="https://i.ibb.co/HxByghN/Screenshot-2024-02-27-231633.png" alt="Screenshot-2024-02-27-231633"