Create a file if it doesn't exist

Question

I\'m trying to open a file, and if the file doesn\'t exist, I need to create it and open it for writing. I have this so far:

#open file for reading
fn = input(\"         


        

Answer 1

I think this should work:

#open file for reading
fn = input("Enter file to open: ")
try:
    fh = open(fn,'r')
except:
# if file does not exist, create it
    fh = open(fn,'w')

Also, you incorrectly wrote fh = open ( fh, "w") when the file you wanted open was fn