To implement touch in Python, you can use the pathlib module’s “Path.touch()” method. It will create any file in any specified directory.

Syntax

Path.touch(mode=0o666, exist_ok=True)

Parameters

Name	Value
mode	It determines the way you want to create a file.
exist_ok	If the file already exists, the function succeeds if the exist_ok argument is True (and its modification time is updated to the current time). Otherwise, FileExistsError is raised.

Importing the pathlib library

from pathlib import Path

Touch a single file

Before touching a single file

from pathlib import Path

Path("/Users/krunal/Desktop/code/pyt/database/file.txt").touch()

After touching a single file

Creating multiple files using touch

We can create multiple files by using a loop and pathlib.Path.touch() method.

from pathlib import Path

# List of files you want to touch
file_list = [
    "parent/file1.txt",
    "parent/app.log",
    "parent/report.csv",
]

for file_path in file_list:
    path = Path(file_path)
    # Make sure parent directories exist
    if path.parent:
        path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    # Create file if missing, or update its modification time if present
    path.touch(exist_ok=True)

That is it.