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touch a file
June 8, 2015
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Problem
In bash, the command “touch” creates an empty file (with size 0). How to do this in Python?
Solution
Simply open a file in write mode and write an empty string to it.
With the stdlib:
with open("empty.txt", "w") as f:
f.write("")
With the excellent unipath library:
p = Path("empty.txt")
p.write_file("")
Note that this solution will overwrite your file if it exists. So be careful.
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