Testing for a file in python?

[Moshe Zadka]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Thaddeus L. Olczyk wrote:

> How would you go about testing if a certain file exists in python?
> In most scripting languages you have the -f test:

I don't know what you mean by "most".

> stat doesn't work, it aborts if the file does not exist.

Why not use os.path.isfile()?

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