I just wrote an annoying little piece of code:
try:
os.unlink("file")
except OSError:
pass
The point being I want to make sure the file is gone, but am not sure if
it exists currently. Essentially, I want to do what "rm -f" does in the
unix shell.
In fact, what I did doesn't even do that. By catching OSError, I catch
"No such file or directory" (which is what I want), but I also catch
lots of things I want to know about, like "Permission denied". I could
do:
if os.access("file", os.F_OK):
os.unlink("file")
but that's annoying too. What would people think about a patch to
os.unlink() to add an optional second parameter which says to ignore
attempts to remove non-existent files (just like "rm -f")? Then you
could do:
os.unlink("file", ignore=True)
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