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buran

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Sep-08-2020, 06:48 AM (This post was last modified: Sep-08-2020, 06:48 AM by buran.)

As @bowlofred explained - the canonic way is to try to open and handle the exception. Checking if file exists and then try to open it is prone to race condition - the file may be deleted/renamed between your check and your attempt to work with it.

As a side note - it's better using with context manager when open the file

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Check if a file exists. - by Pedroski55 - Sep-08-2020, 05:58 AM

RE: Check if a file exists. - by bowlofred - Sep-08-2020, 06:32 AM

RE: Check if a file exists. - by buran - Sep-08-2020, 06:48 AM

RE: Check if a file exists. - by snippsat - Sep-08-2020, 09:38 AM

RE: Check if a file exists. - by perfringo - Sep-08-2020, 09:57 AM

RE: Check if a file exists. - by Pedroski55 - Sep-08-2020, 10:01 AM

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