ABSTRACT
Up until now, we have strictly worked with data that we have produced with our own code. Rarely will you ever copy-and-paste data into a Python script. Instead, you will need to interact with external data. Further, you will often need to save data in some way. This section is the first of two that walk you through how to interact with external data. We will be working with textual data in this section, while in the following section we will work with JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation data.
