Why exception from os.path.exists()?

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> But
>> assuming you're right, POSIX is still a set of minimum requirements -
>> not maximums, to my knowledge.
>
> It isn't even a set of minimum requirements. "<" is legal under POSIX,
> but not Windows.

Windows isn't POSIX compliant.

Anyhow, I've come to the conclusion that we're all about equally wrong
here, so I'm going to just stop arguing. Anyone who wants the
behaviour I described can get it easily enough via os.stat; and if you
want ValueError to turn into False, that's also easy enough.

ChrisA