python os.path.exists failure

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed Nov 4 16:57:06 EST 2009


In article <9aaf6a31-a34e-454b-a8f0-e206ad9b7040 at t2g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
koranthala  <koranthala at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>path = r'C:/"Program Files"/testfolder/2.3/test.txt'
>if os.path.lexists(path):
>    print 'Path Exists'
>else:
>    print 'No file found in path - %s' %path
>print Popen(path, stdout=PIPE, shell=True).stdout.read()

Avoiding shell=True is a Good Idea
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