Use pathlib in magics module's execution.py

IPython/core/magics/execution.py

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 from IPython.utils.timing import clock, clock2
 from warnings import warn
 from logging import error
+from pathlib import Path
 from io import StringIO
 from pathlib import Path
 
@@ -364,7 +365,10 @@ def _run_with_profiler(self, code, opts, namespace):
                 f"\n*** Profile stats marshalled to file {repr(dump_file)}.{sys_exit}"
             )
         if text_file:
-            Path(text_file).write_text(output)
+            pfile = Path(text_file)
+            pfile.touch(exist_ok=True)
+            pfile.write_text(output)
+
             print(
                 f"\n*** Profile printout saved to text file {repr(text_file)}.{sys_exit}"
             )