Error when creating a new text file with python?
If the file does not exists, open(name,'r+') will fail.
You can use open(name, 'w'), which creates the file if the file does not exist, but it will truncate the existing file.
Alternatively, you can use open(name, 'a'); this will create the file if the file does not exist, but will not truncate the existing file.
instead of using try-except blocks, you could use, if else
this will not execute if the file is non-existent, open(name,'r+')
if os.path.exists('location\filename.txt'): print "File exists"else: open("location\filename.txt", 'w')'w' creates a file if its non-exis
following script will use to create any kind of file, with user input as extension
import sysdef create(): print("creating new file") name=raw_input ("enter the name of file:") extension=raw_input ("enter extension of file:") try: name=name+"."+extension file=open(name,'a') file.close() except: print("error occured") sys.exit(0)create()