How to detect if file is a directory

Tim Jarman tmj at SPAMLESSjarmania.com
Sat Apr 9 14:55:06 EDT 2005


César Leonardo Blum Silveira wrote:

> Hello all, I'm new to this list.
> 
> How can I detect if a file is a directory or not?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> César

The os module contains many helpful tools for working with files,
directories, links and so forth. Check out the docs and marvel. The
following snippet answers your specific question:

<code>
import os.path

if os.path.isdir("/some/path/here"):
    print "It's a directory!"
</code>
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