On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 18:19 -0700, Chris Rebert wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Giampaolo Rodola' <gne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What about open('foo', 'w').close(). > > Does it have the same problems? > > Well, no, but that's only because it's a pointless no-op that doesn't > really do anything besides possibly throwing an exception (e.g. if the > script didn't have write access to the current directory).
Actually, it will create the file if it doesn't exist, and truncate it to zero length if it does. Ryan -- Ryan Kelly http://www.rfk.id.au | This message is digitally signed. Please visit r...@rfk.id.au | http://www.rfk.id.au/ramblings/gpg/ for details -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list