Does this path exist?

[Chris]

On May 28, 10:59 am, s0s... at gmail.com wrote:
> On May 28, 3:47 am, Matt Nordhoff <mnordh... at mattnordhoff.com> wrote:
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> > s0s... at gmail.com wrote:
> > > I wanted to ask for ways to test whether a path exists. I usually use
> > > os.path.exists(), which does a stat call on the path and returns True
> > > if it succeeds, or False if it fails (catches os.error). But stat
> > > calls don't fail only when a path doesn't exist. I see that, at least
> > > on Windows, the instance of the exception has an attribute 'errno' set
> > > to 2 when it fails because the path doesn't exist. Is it a portable
> > > solution to rely on this (haven't tried it on Linux)? Are there other
> > > ways of testing whether a path exists?
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sebastian
>
> > "import errno" and see if the exception's errno attribute is set to
> > errno.ENOENT (which is, yes, 2). It is portable.
>
> > If you Google [ENOENT Windows] or whatever, there are some differences
> > on different platforms, but not many.
>
> Thanks. So if OSError().errno == errno.ENOENT, then it means the path
> doesn't exist? (What does "ENOENT" stan for?)

http://books.google.co.za/books?id=MvoetCEgMRMC&pg=PA398&lpg=PA398&dq=enoent+meaning&source=web&ots=31Ik2wY4NZ&sig=NUvvA1LTMDG0x4XK0x7142FEeNI&hl=en

ENOENT - Invalid Entry (file or directory)