Why exception from os.path.exists()?

[Antoon Pardon]

On 11-06-18 13:59, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:55:06 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>
>> On 11-06-18 02:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> [...]
>>>     open(foo) raises an exception if foo doesn't exist;
>>>
>>>     os.path.exists(foo) returns False if foo doesn't exist.
>> That is not correct. The path can exist and os.path.exists still return
>> False.
> It is correct. I made no claim about what happens if foo exists. I said 
> only that if it doesn't exist, the function returns False.
>
> If you're going to be pedantic, be *right*. Being pedantically wrong is 
> just sad.

I can live with that.

-- 
Antoon.