On Nov 1, 3:44 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ben Finney wrote: > > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > You could try to read the file, if that fails it doesn't exist: > > > > Except that there are other conditions than "File doesn't exist" > > > that can cause an 'open' to fail. > > > Ok, true. You can test explicit on non existence as follows, and then > > decide to open the fileOr you can simply use 'os.path.exists', as has been > > suggested several > times in this thread. > os.path.exists() checks if a path exists, so a directory as argument also returns True > -- > \ "The way to build large Python applications is to componentize | > `\ and loosely-couple the hell out of everything." -- Aahz | > _o__) | > Ben Finney
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