How to clean file using Python

Question

In the Unix shell, I can do this to delete the file:

cd /the/file/directory/ :> thefile.ext 

How will I do this in Python?

Is os.system here, I would not know how I would have to send 2 actions one after another, i.e. cd and then :> .

Answer 1

Opening the file creates it and (if append ('a') is not installed) overwrites it with an empty one, for example:

 open(filename, 'w').close() 

Answer 2

Alternative Response Form by @rumpel

 with open(filename, 'w'): pass 

Answer 3

 os.remove("filename") file1 = open("filename", "w")