checking for when a file or folder exists, typing problems?

[Brian]

Hi Bryan,

Here's a potential idea.  Try converting the variable to a string by 
using the following syntax:


   thePath = str(thePathArg)


This will convert the current variable type to a string, which follows 
the data type syntax that you have specified at the beginning of your 
message.

Hope this helps,

Brian :-)
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Bryan Rasmussen wrote:
> Hi 
> I have a little program that is importing from os.path import exists, join,
> isdir, normpath, isfile
> at one point in my program I check if a file exists using
> if exists("c:\projects"):
> 
> and that works fine.
> 
> If I change it to be
> if exists(thepath):
> where thepath is a commandline argument it does not work fine.
> 
> Note that the commandline is c:\projects and when I print thepath to check what
> is going on it prints
> c:\projects
> 
> The only thing I can assume is that there is some sort of typing problem going
> on here, but then it should go ahead and give an error then if it's getting
> something unexpected obviously. 
> 
> Any help on what this error is?
> 
> Thanks
> 
>