[Tutor] checking if file exists
Tim Wilson
wilson at visi.com
Thu Oct 14 17:51:34 CEST 2004
On 10/14/04 10:43 AM, "Mark Kels" <Mark.Kels at gmail.com> wrote:
> How can I check if file exists in a folder ?
> I tryed to do it with an if statment, but I cant use the error as a
> boolean expression...
> Any suggestions ?
I'm sure someone will suggest something most specific, but this is where the
try-except combination comes in. It would look something like this:
try:
f = open(filename)
etc etc etc
except IOError:
print "There's no %s file there." % filename
etc etc etc
-Tim
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