Testing for a file in python?
j vickroy
jvickroy at sec.noaa.gov
Mon Jun 12 13:40:49 EDT 2000
Try the exists() method in the os.path module as follows:
>>> import os.path
>>> print os.path.exists ('my_file')
0
>>>
"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:
>
> if -f filename do
> whatever_you_were_going_to_do
> fi
> else do
> print "Error" file not found
> fi
>
> stat doesn't work, it aborts if the file does not exist.
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