How to Check if a File or Directory Exists in Python

Posted by linuxize on May 25, 2019 8:26 AM EDT
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When writing Python scripts, you may want to perform a certain action only if a file or directory exists or not. For example, you may want to read or write data to a configuration file or to create the file only if it already doesn't exist.

In Python, there are many different ways to check whether a file exists and determine the type of the file.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you three different techniques about how to check for a file's existence.

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