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Python - check if file exists
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In this article, we would like to show you how to check if a file exists in Python.
Quick solution:
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import os.path2
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file = os.path.exists("C:\\example_path\example.txt")4
print(file) # True / False
In this example, we check if the file exists using exists() method from os.path module.
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import os.path2
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file = os.path.exists("example.txt")4
print(file) # True / Falseif the file isn't directly in our project we need to specify the path:
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import os.path2
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file = os.path.exists("C:\\example_directory\example.txt")4
print(file) # True / FalseIn this example, we check if the file exists using isfile() method from os.path module.
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import os.path2
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file = os.path.isfile("example.txt")4
print(file) # True / Falseif the file isn't directly in our project we need to specify the path:
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import os.path2
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file = os.path.isfile("C:\\example_directory\example.txt")4
print(file) # True / False