sandorf wrote: > I'm new to python. Have a simple question. > > "open" function can only open an existing file and raise a IOerror when > the given file does not exist. How can I creat a new file then? >
You already have two correct answers. A warning: if you open a existing file for writing, it is truncated (the old contents of that file disappear.) For adding new content to the end of an existing file, you can use: f = open(filename,'a') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list