On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:44:25 +1100, Ben Finney 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 file > > Or you can simply use 'os.path.exists', as has been suggested several > times in this thread.
But there can be a race condition between os.path.exists returning True and you trying to open the file, if some other process deletes or renames the file in the meantime. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
