Python - check if file is regular file

In this article, we would like to show you how to check if the file is a regular file in Python.

Quick solution:

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import os.path

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is_file = os.path.isfile("example.txt")

print(is_file)  # True

In this example, we check if the example.txt file is a regular file using isfile() method from os.path module.

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import os.path

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is_file = os.path.isfile("example.txt")

print(is_file)  # True

if the file isn't directly in our project we need to specify the path:

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import os.path

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is_file = os.path.isfile("C:\\example_directory\example.txt")

print(is_file)  # True