How to check if a file exists?

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How to check if a file exists at a specific path using Python?

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file_path = ""path/to/file.txt""

To check if a given path exists, use the os.path.exists function:

import os.pathos.path.exists(file_path)

But it will return True for both a file and a directory.

os.path.isfile will check specifically for the existence of a file.

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