[Tutor] Checking file existance
Scot W. Stevenson
scot@possum.in-berlin.de
Fri, 23 Aug 2002 07:00:00 +0200
Hi there,
> import os.path
>
> if os.path.exists(filename):
> print "found it"
There seems to be a second way:
import os
if os.access(filename, os.F_OK):
print "found it"
os.access will also let you test for read, write, and execute permissions.
No idea why this is duplicated, but there you go.
Y, Scot
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Scot W. Stevenson wrote me on Friday, 23. Aug 2002 in Zepernick, Germany
on his happy little Linux system that has been up for 1588 hours
and has a CPU that is falling asleep at a system load of 0.07.