Opening New files

[Joonas Paalasmaa]

Mikhael Loo wrote:
> 
> What code do you used to open a new file.  I've been opening existing files
> on MSW but I'm having trouble with my files and I think  that I may need to
> use something besides open() if the file doesn't already exists.

If you want to write a file and it does not exist yet, Python will
create it for you.

For example
open("file", "w").write("Python rules")
creates a new file if it doesn't exist yet.
And all this works on Windoze too.