How to create a new text file using Python

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I m practicing the management of  txt files in python  I ve been reading about it and found that if I try to open a file that doesn t exists yet it will create it on the same directory from where the program is being executed  The problem comes that when I try to open it  I get this error      IOError   Errno 2  No such file or directory     C  Users myusername PycharmProjects Tests copy txt      I even tried specifying a path as you can see in the error   import os THIS FOLDER   os path dirname os path abspath   file     my file   os path join THIS FOLDER   copy txt

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file   open  path of file  optional  filename txt    w    a append w write r read     any string    Hello nWorld      file write any string      file close

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Looks like you forgot the mode parameter when calling open  try w   file   open  copy txt    w    file write  Your text goes here    file close      The default value is r and will fail if the file does not exist   r  open for reading  default   w  open for writing  truncating the file first   Other interesting options are    x  open for exclusive creation  failing if the file already exists  a  open for writing  appending to the end of the file if it exists   See Doc for Python2 7 or Python3 6  -- EDIT --   As stated by chepner in the comment below  it is better practice to do it with a withstatement  it guarantees that the file will be closed   with open  copy txt    w   as file      file write  Your text goes here

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Method 1 f   open  Path To Your File txt    w        r  for reading and  w  for writing f write  Hello World from     f name       Write inside file  f close                                    Close file     Method 2 with open  Path To Your File txt    w   as f      Opens file and casts as f      f write  Hello World form     f name          Writing       File closed automatically   There are many more methods but these two are most common  Hope this helped

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f   open  Path To Your File txt    w        r  for reading and  w  for writing f write  Hello World from     f name       Write inside file  f close                                    Close file     Method 2shush with open  Path To Your File txt    w   as f      Opens file and casts as f      f write  Hello World form     f name          Writing   File closed automatically

[python] How to create a new text file using Python

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