creating a file from python

[Greg Ewing]

> gollem wrote:
> 
>> I want to create a file from inside a running python script.
>> I can do that using commands and touch but it won't work if the intended
>> name of the file is the value of a python variable.


You mean you just want to create an empty file?
This will do it:

   filename = "some_file_name"
   f = open(filename, "w")
   f.close()

Names of your Python variables don't come into it at all.

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
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