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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