To create a file of a particular size, just seek to the byte number(size) you want to create the file of and write a byte there.
For example
with open('my_file', 'wb') as f:
f.seek(1024 * 1024 * 1024) # One GB
f.write('0')This creates a sparse file by not actually taking up all that space. To create a full file, you should write the whole file:
with open('my_file', 'wb') as f:
num_chars = 1024 * 1024 * 1024
f.write('0' * num_chars)