[Tut] How to Check Whether a File Exists Without Exceptions?

How to Check Whether a File Exists Without Exceptions?

Challenge: Given a string '/path/to/file.py'. How to check whether a file exists at '/path/to/file.py', without using the try and except statements for exception handling?

# What You Want!

if exists('/path/to/file.py'): ... # Do something

Solution: To check whether a file exists at a given path,

• Run from pathlib import Path to import the path object,
• Create a path object with Path('/path/to/file.py'), and
• Run its .is_file() method that returns True if the file exists and False otherwise.

from pathlib import Path if Path('/path/to/file.py').is_file(): print('Yay')

If the file does exist, you’ll enter the if branch, otherwise you don’t enter it. This method works across all operating systems and modern Python versions.

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