"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You could try to read the file, if that fails it doesn't exist: > > > > 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
Or you can simply use 'os.path.exists', as has been suggested several times in this thread. -- \ "The way to build large Python applications is to componentize | `\ and loosely-couple the hell out of everything." -- Aahz | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
