Python Writing to Existing or New Files with open() Function

Write to a file in #Python with open(filename, 'w'). What if filename already exists? Its contents are gone. (I hope you have backups!) Instead, try: open(filename, 'x') If filename already exists, 'x' raises an exception. For new files, 'x' and 'w' are the same.

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