Strange os.path.exists() behaviour
Pierre Quentel
quentel.pierre at wanadoo.fr
Wed Jul 6 15:50:43 EDT 2005
os.path.exists(path) returns True if "path" exists
But on Windows it also returns True for "path" followed by any number of
dots :
Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> import os
>>> os.path.exists('Lib/os.py')
True # expected
>>> os.path.exists('Lib/os.py.')
True # unexpected
>>> os.path.exists('Lib/os.py.....')
True # unexpected
>>>
Is there a reason for this ? Is there a test that returns True only for
the really existing path ?
Pierre
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