Creating files.
David Allen
s2mdalle at titan.vcu.edu
Sat Jan 27 13:50:00 EST 2001
In article <3A72FDD0.2C1206CF at hotmail.com>, "joonas" <keisari_ at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Is there any functions in Python for creating files?
>
> Joonas.
Open it for writing, and that's about it.
fp = open("somefile", "w")
fp.flush()
fp.close()
Congrats, "somefile" now exists with a 0 size.
Alternately, you could through the shell "touch"
the file if you're on a unix system.
--
David Allen
http://opop.nols.com/
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"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as
easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered.
I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life
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- Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949
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