On 9 May 2013 14:07, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> 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
