Re: os.path.exists() function does not work for http paths

[Steve Holden]

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Hi,

I have used os.path.exists() many a times for any file system paths in
local system. But this does not seem to work for an Http path.

e.g:
To check is the Results folder exists at the following path, I do:
if not os.path.exists("http://subversion.myCom.com/Testing/Results"):
print 'Path does not exist'
This always prints the above print statements whether or not the Results
folder exists or not.

Is there any such function to check existence of files. / folder at Http
paths?

You could use one of the URL libraries. The os.path module is for
dealing with the local filesystem.

The absence of any exception from

f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.com/webhp/")

is a good indication that the addressed page "exists" (but remember that
the web is a virtual address space, so it doesn't necessarily mean that
there's a real file or directory object behind ot).

regards
Steve

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