Why exception from os.path.exists()?
Antoon Pardon
antoon.pardon at vub.be
Mon Jun 11 08:53:25 EDT 2018
On 11-06-18 13:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:55:06 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>
>> On 11-06-18 02:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> [...]
>>> open(foo) raises an exception if foo doesn't exist;
>>>
>>> os.path.exists(foo) returns False if foo doesn't exist.
>> That is not correct. The path can exist and os.path.exists still return
>> False.
> It is correct. I made no claim about what happens if foo exists. I said
> only that if it doesn't exist, the function returns False.
>
> If you're going to be pedantic, be *right*. Being pedantically wrong is
> just sad.
I can live with that.
--
Antoon.
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