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- [Instructor] In this
self check exercise,

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we'd like you to create your
own text file called grades.txt

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and we'd like you to write
three records of information

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consisting of a fake student ID,

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a last name, and a letter grade.

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So here's some sample records

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that you can write into the file.

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So go ahead and pause the
video and use a with statement

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to actually create the file

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like we did in the preceding video.

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When you're done doing that,

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come back here to see my answer.

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Okay, so all we're going to do,

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like we did in the preceding video,

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is open, in a with statement,
the grades.txt file

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which will be written
into the current folder

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wherever you are executing the statement.

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We're going to open that file for writing.

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So, again, if that file already exists,

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it will be overwritten by this

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with statement opening
the grades.txt file.

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We're going to treat the
resulting file object

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as the name grades, the
variable name grades,

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or interact with it through that variable.

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And here we're writing out the
three records of information

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we specified in the problem statement.

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So we'll go ahead and execute that.

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And, again, depending on whether

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you're a macOS or Windows user,

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you can execute the exclamation point cat

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or exclamation point more command

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followed by the name of your
file to see its contents.

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So let me go ahead and
do that here on my Mac,

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and as you can see,

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indeed the file was created

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with the three records of information

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that we wrote in the
with statements suite.