HowTo distinguish between File and Directory

Scott F sdfATexpertuneDOTcom
Mon Jan 19 15:14:33 EST 2004


Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in
news:400C35C2.2C46EE3C at engcorp.com: 

> Scott F wrote:
>> 
>> On Win32, is there a function in the standard modules that can
>> take a pathname and return whether it refers to a File or a
>> Directory? 
> 
> import os
> os.path.isfile(name)
> os.path.isdir(name)
> 
> Is that adequate?

Yes.  I only did a dir(os) and thus didn't see the items under path.  

Thanks Peter (and Erik).

Scott



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