touch()

audeer.touch(path, *paths)

Create an empty file.

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

Parameters

• path (str | bytes) – path to file

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

Return type

str

Returns

expanded path to file

Examples

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