Ben Finney wrote: > "[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 O_CREAT|O_EXCL method pointed out elsethread is preferrable, checking with "exists" and then creating if it returns false is racey. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
