On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 12:04:01 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
> 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".
import errno
try:
os.unlink("file")
except OSError as e:
if e.errno != errno.ENOENT:
raise
> I could do:
>
> if os.access("file", os.F_OK):
> os.unlink("file")
>
> but that's annoying too.
It also has a race condition. EAFP is the right approach here.
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