[Tutor] os.access(), problems with mode variable

[Kent Johnson]

FWIW you can also use os.path.exists() for this. It's a bit more readable 
if nothing else:
import os

sPath = 'C:\\file.txt'

if os.path.exists( sPath ):
     print 'yeah!'
else:
     print 'nah'

Kent

At 04:32 PM 8/17/2004 +0200, Bernard Lebel wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Trying to test the existence of a file, using the access function from the
>os module.
>In the documentation it is said to use F_OK as the mode for such thing.
>However when I run the code below, I get a "NameError: name 'F_OK' is not
>defined".
>
>Any suggestion?
>
>
>import os
>
>sPath = 'C:\\file.txt'
>
>if os.access( sPath, F_OK ) == 1:
>     print 'yeah!'
>else:
>     print 'nah'
>
>
>
>
>Thanks in advance
>Bernard
>
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