In this tutorial, we will explore various built-in and third party Python modules to store and retrieve data to/from various formats such as text file, CSV, JSON and XML files as well as relational and non-relational databases. This tutorial also introduces ZODB database, which is a persistence API for Python objects. Microsoft Excel format is a very popular data file format. Here, we will learn how to handle .xlsx file through Python.

Audience

This tutorial is for all the software programmers who have keen interest in learning about data persistence with regards to Python.

Prerequisites

If you are novice to Python, it is suggested that you go through the tutorials related to Python before proceeding with this one.