How to creat a file?

[Fredrik Lundh]

"sandorf" <fanglicheng at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm new to python. Have a simple question.
>
> "open" function can only open an existing file and raise a IOerror when
> the given file does not exist. How can I creat a new file then?

reading the documentation might help:

>>> help(open)

class file(object)
 |  file(name[, mode[, buffering]]) -> file object
 |
 |  Open a file.  The mode can be 'r', 'w' or 'a' for reading (default),
 |  writing or appending.  The file will be created if it doesn't exist
 |  when opened for writing or appending; it will be truncated when
 |  opened for writing.  Add a 'b' to the mode for binary files.
 |  Add a '+' to the mode to allow simultaneous reading and writing.

/snip/

 |  Note:  open() is an alias for file().

this is also explained in the chapter 7 of the tutorial ("reading and writing files"),
as well as the reference manual.

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