[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wanted to ask for ways to test whether a path exists. I usually use > os.path.exists(), which does a stat call on the path and returns True > if it succeeds, or False if it fails (catches os.error). But stat > calls don't fail only when a path doesn't exist. I see that, at least > on Windows, the instance of the exception has an attribute 'errno' set > to 2 when it fails because the path doesn't exist. Is it a portable > solution to rely on this (haven't tried it on Linux)? Are there other > ways of testing whether a path exists? > > Thanks, > Sebastian
"import errno" and see if the exception's errno attribute is set to errno.ENOENT (which is, yes, 2). It is portable. If you Google [ENOENT Windows] or whatever, there are some differences on different platforms, but not many. -- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
