pythonhadoophdfssnakebite

How to Create HDFS file

I know it is possible to create directory HDFS with python using snakebite

But I am looking to create a file on HDFS directory

Solution

  • using subprocess

    from subprocess import Popen, PIPE 

(ret, out, err)= run_cmd(['hdfs', 'dfs', '-touchz', '/directory/filename'])