How to detect the presence of a html file

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Sat Dec 10 03:19:26 EST 2005


Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>BartlebyScrivener wrote:
>>> Even weirder,
>> 
>>> os.path.isfile(r'c://bookmarks.html')
>> 
>> Never mind. It works that way from the command line, too. Never tried
>> it before.
>
>Forward slashes as path separator only works on NTFS volumes I believe.

Wrong.  They work on all Microsoft operating systems back to at least
MS-DOS 5, and on every version of Windows.

The command interpreters don't accept them, but all of the APIs do.
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- Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
  Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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