Ben Finney wrote:
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > You could try to read the file, if that fails it doesn't exist:
> >
> > try:
> > f = open('xxx')
> > except IOError:
> > f = open('xxx', 'w')
> > print "file doesn't exist"
> > print f
>
> 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
import errno
try:
f = open('xxx')
except IOError, e:
if e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
f = open('xxx', 'w')
print f
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