A little disappointed so far

[Harry George]

Graham Nicholls <graham at rockcons.co.uk> writes:

> Aahz wrote:
> 
> > In article <PRVxa.118$573.48 at news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>,
> > Graham Nicholls  <graham at rockcons.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>Is there an equivalent of [ -f $filename ] to test for the existence of
> >>filename in Python?  Things like this seem essential for a shell tool
> >>language.
> > 


Every pythonista I know who was a serious Perl guy previously.  We all
wanted to start with "Can I write Perl idioms in Python?".  That
sounds about like what you are asking.  The answer is "Yes, but
eventually you will stop wanting to do so."

I for one really wanted those familiar Perl idioms, so I made a module
for them.  See "pyperlish" at:
http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/index.html
http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/pyperlish-1.2/doc/manual.html

Specifically, for your question see the file operations section:
   if p.f(myfile):
      #do something useful

(Notice that idioms regarding _, $_, and @_ are honored.)


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