Lazy creation of files in PHP (Python)?

Question

PHP

There is a system that keeps logs using Zend_Log_Writer_Stream, messages are written to files.
When creating a Zend_Log_Writer_Stream, you need to pass a link to the file resource, that is, the file needs to be created - but not the fact that the system will issue messages that will be logged.
Therefore, there is a bunch of empty files.
Is there a mechanism for delayed file creation in PHP (for Python is also relevant) - that is, the file will be created only when writing to it begins and will not be created if there is no writing to it.

Answer 1

Let's talk about PHP. As far as I know, fopen opens a handle and creates a file accordingly. And if you do not call fopen, but implement it at a higher level, i.e. intercept the write operation and check if the file is open. If not open, then open. In general, I would inherit from Zend_Log_writer_Stream and add what I need.

Answer 2

In php / python there is a wonderful thing called OOP, with its help you can create an object, inherit from (in this case) Zend_Log_Writer_Stream and, oddly enough, override the necessary methods, replacing it with the expected logic.

Answer 3

It seems to me that it is possible to write a simple wrapper over the file class, in Python I think it is definitely possible.
At worst, you can simply check the size of the file in the wrapper's destructor, and delete the file if it's empty.