Answer by philberndt for How do I check whether a file exists without exceptions?

You could try this (safer):

try:    # http://effbot.org/zone/python-with-statement.htm    # 'with' is safer to open a file    with open('whatever.txt') as fh:        # Do something with 'fh'except IOError as e:    print("({})".format(e))

The ouput would be:

([Errno 2] No such file or directory:'whatever.txt')

Then, depending on the result, your program can just keep running from there or you can code to stop it if you want.