Comment by selcuka

Comment by selcuka 9 days ago

3 replies

There is a small amount of time between the `if` and the `with` where another process can delete the file, hence causing a race condition. Attempting to open the file and catching any exceptions raised is generally safer.

taberiand 9 days ago

Won't it throw the same "FileNotFound" exception in that case? The issue being bothering to check if it exists in the first place I suppose.

  • selcuka 9 days ago

    Yes, but it won't log the error as it is clearly the intention of the first check.