touch()

audeer.touch(path, *paths)

Create an empty file.

If the file exists already it’s access and modification times are updated.

Parameters

• path (Union[str, bytes]) – path to file

• *paths (Sequence[Union[str, bytes]]) – additional arguments to be joined with path by os.path.join()

Return type

str

Returns

expanded path to file

Examples

>>> path = touch("file.txt")
>>> os.path.basename(path)
'file.txt'