Open a .txt file that has been declared with a .mo extention

Question

I have a regular text.txt file that is being used in a different program with the file extension .mo

I want to access the text with open(), but for that, I have to change the extension of the file. In the end, the extension should reverse to .mo :

path = "dymtest.txt"
file_name = Path(path_dym)
file_name.rename(file_name.with_suffix(".txt"))

with open(file_name) as chat:
   lines = chat.readlines()

file_name.rename(file_name.with_suffix(".txt"))

I'd say that opening the file as a .mo to read the text should be possible. Additionally, a solution needs to be able to read and write that file.

Answer 1

As mentioned above, python don't care about file name (including extension). While you do know what is the file structure and how to work with it — just do it.

If .mo actually contains text — open this file in text mode (which is default), read/process/write it.