On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:55:06 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > On 11-06-18 02:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [...] >> open(foo) raises an exception if foo doesn't exist; >> >> os.path.exists(foo) returns False if foo doesn't exist. > > That is not correct. The path can exist and os.path.exists still return > False.
It is correct. I made no claim about what happens if foo exists. I said only that if it doesn't exist, the function returns False. If you're going to be pedantic, be *right*. Being pedantically wrong is just sad. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
