Question 8 - Past Year - 2 Mark Questions - Chapter 2 - File Handling in Python

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Write a program that checks to see if the file name exists, it will give you an error message, if not, it will create the file.

 

Answer:

import os

if os.path.isfile('sample.txt'):

print ("You are trying to create a file that already exist!")

else:

f = open("sample.txt",'w')

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Question 8 Write a program that checks to see if the file name exists, it will give you an error message, if not, it will create the file. Imports the ‘os module’ Checks if the file already exists Prints error message if the file already exists If the file doesn’t exist, creates a new file Output

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