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Comparison between JavaScript and Python

The information comes from the Udemy course "Become an AI Engineer: Python for JavaScript Developers" by Vilva Athiban

Feature JavaScript Python
Read a whole file 
import fs from "fs";
import path from "path";
import { fileURLToPath } from "url";
const content = fs.readFileSync("test.txt", "utf-8");
console.log(content);
# Use `with` (a context manager): it auto-closes the file when the block ends, # even if an exception is raised. No manual close() needed. 
with open("test.txt") as f:# default mode is "r" (read)
    content = f.read()
print(content)
Write Write (overwrites) 
fs.writeFileSync("test.txt", "This is new text");
 Write (mode "w" overwrites; default "r" is read-only) 
with open("test.txt", "w") as f:   # forgetting "w" -> "not writable" error
    f.write("This is new text")
Read line by line 
const lines = fs.readFileSync("test.txt", "utf-8").split("\n");
for (const line of lines) {
  console.log(line);
}
 
with open("test.txt") as f:
    for line in f:   # iterate the file object directly
        print(line, end="")

# In Python, file open/read/write/close are all SYNCHRONOUS operations.
Paths 
const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
console.log(path.extname(__filename));   // ".js"     (extension)
console.log(path.basename(__filename));  // file name
console.log(path.dirname(__filename));   // parent folder
 
import pathlib

file_path = pathlib.Path(__file__) # __file__ = current file
print(file_path.suffix)     # ".py"     extension
print(file_path.name)       # full file name
print(file_path.stem)       # name without extension
print(file_path.parent)     # parent folder
print(file_path.absolute()) # absolute path