[Tutor] Equivalent exception of os.path.exists()

[Lie Ryan]

On 12/1/2009 12:00 AM, biboy mendz wrote:
> http://pastebin.ca/1693849
>
> This is end-of-chapter3 exercise of the book Core Python Programming.
>
> I'm reading/searching in the book and other materials but is
> unsuccessful. There are at least 50 exceptions listed but I can't find
> anything close.
>
> I commented out my modified script to just what *should* be applicable.
> Can you please point me to the right direction? TIA.

You're trying to take exception from raw_input(); raw_input() merely 
receive input from the stdin. raw_input() doesn't have anything to do 
with the file. You should expect the exception to come from the open() 
function instead.

However, on a little bit of note; open('...', 'w') will (almost) always 
work since if the file doesn't exists, python will simply create it. The 
only time it wouldn't work is if you've have file edit permission but 
not create new file permission.