simple way to touch a file if it does not exist

[bukzor]

On May 21, 5:10 pm, "Giampaolo Rodola'" <gne... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 Mag, 01:15, Nikhil <mnik... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > what are the simple ways?
> > I could think of os.open(), os.exec(touch file)
>
> > are there any simpler methods?
>
> Just use os.path.exists to check for file existence and open() as
> replacement for touch.
>
> >>> import os
> >>> if not os.path.exists('file'):
>
> ...     open('file', 'w').close()
> ...
>
>
>
> --- Giampaolohttp://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/

As simple as it gets is a single builtin function call:

open("somefile.txt", "a")

Leave out the ,"a" if you don't mind blanking a pre-existing file.