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To read a file line by line in Python, you can use a loop to iterate over the lines in the file. Here’s an example:

python
with open('filename.txt', 'r') as f:
    for line in f:
        print(line)

In this code, the with open() statement opens the file in read mode and creates a file object f. The loop then iterates over each line in the file, storing each line in the variable line. Finally, the loop prints each line to the console.

Note that the with statement automatically closes the file after the loop has finished executing, which is good practice to ensure that the file is properly closed and resources are freed.

To write to a file line by line in Go, you can use the bufio package to create a bufio.Writer and then write to the file using its WriteString() method. Here’s an example:

go
package main

import (
	"bufio"
	"log"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	// create a file
	file, err := os.Create("output.txt")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer file.Close()

	// create a buffered writer
	writer := bufio.NewWriter(file)

	// write lines to the file
	lines := []string{"Line 1", "Line 2", "Line 3"}
	for _, line := range lines {
		_, err := writer.WriteString(line + "\n")
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatal(err)
		}
	}

	// flush the buffer to ensure all data is written to the file
	err = writer.Flush()
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
}

In this example, we first create a file using the os.Create() function. Then we create a bufio.Writer using the bufio.NewWriter() function and pass in the file we created.

Next, we write each line to the file using the WriteString() method of the writer. We append a newline character (\n) to the end of each line to ensure that each line is written on a separate line in the file.

Finally, we call the Flush() method of the writer to ensure that any remaining data in the buffer is written to the file.

You can use the “bufio” package in Go to read the first line of a file. Here’s an example code snippet:

go
package main

import (
    "bufio"
    "fmt"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    file, err := os.Open("filename.txt")
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println(err)
        return
    }
    defer file.Close()

    scanner := bufio.NewScanner(file)
    if scanner.Scan() {
        firstLine := scanner.Text()
        fmt.Println(firstLine)
    } else {
        fmt.Println("File is empty")
    }
}

In this example, we’re opening the file “filename.txt” and creating a scanner to read the file line by line. We then check if the scanner has a line to read with scanner.Scan(). If it does, we retrieve the text of the first line with scanner.Text(). If the file is empty, we print a message indicating that the file is empty.