best way to check if a file exists?

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Tuesday 31/10/2006 18:01, John Salerno wrote:

>What is the best way to check if a file already exists in the current
>directory? I saw os.path.isfile(), but I'm not sure if that does more
>than what I need.

os.access(full_filename, os.F_OK)
http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html

>I just want to check if a file of a certain name exists before the user
>creates a new file of that name.

Remember that things may change between you check the name and you 
actually create the file.


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 

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