Scrapy overwrite json files instead of appending the file

Question

Is there a way to overwrite the said file instead of appending it?

Example)

scrapy crawl myspider -o \"/path/to/json/my.json\" -t json    
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Answer 1

Or you can add:

import os

if "filename.json" in os.listdir('..'):
        os.remove('../filename.json')

at the beginning of your code.

very easy.