On 9 May 2013 14:07, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > In article <518b32ef$0$11120$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > >> There is no sensible use-case for creating a file without opening it. > > Sure there is. Sometimes just creating the name in the file system is > all you want to do. That's why, for example, the unix "touch" command > exists.
Wouldn't the code that implements the touch command just look something like this: f = open(filename) f.close() Or is there some other way of creating the file that doesn't open it (I mean in general not just in Python)? Oscar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
