simple way to touch a file if it does not exist

[Ken Starks]

After os.path.exists, you need to check it _is_ a
file, and not a directory.

Giampaolo Rodola' 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()
> ...
> 
> 
> --- Giampaolo
> http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/