Error when creating a new text file with python?

Question

This function doesn't work and raises an error. Do I need to change any arguments or parameters?

import sys  def write():     print('Creating new text file')       name = input('Enter name of text file: ')+'.txt'  # Name of text file coerced with +.txt      try:         file = open(name,'r+')   # Trying to create a new file or open one         file.close()      except:         print('Something went wrong! Can\'t tell what?')         sys.exit(0) # quit Python  write() 

Answer 1

If the file does not exists, open(name,'r+') will fail.

You can use open(name, 'w'), which creates the file if the file does not exist, but it will truncate the existing file.

Alternatively, you can use open(name, 'a'); this will create the file if the file does not exist, but will not truncate the existing file.