best way to check if a file exists?

Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Wed Nov 1 09:00:53 EST 2006


"wittempj at hotmail.com" <martin.witte at gmail.com> writes:

> You could try to read the file, if that fails it doesn't exist:
>
> try:
>     f = open('xxx')
> except IOError:
>     f = open('xxx', 'w')
>     print "file doesn't exist"
> print f

Except that there are other conditions than "File doesn't exist" that
can cause an 'open' to fail.

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