Python path.exists() returning False

Question

I'm building a basic file server and my program cannot find files.

def sendfile(sock, myfile):     print 'Serving file:', myfile     print 'File exists?:', os.path.exists(myfile)      path = os.path.normpath(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), myfile))     print 'Serving file:', path     print 'File exists?:', os.path.exists(path) 

These always return False even though the 'myfile' and 'path' are correct [the file is in the same directory as the server program].

IDLE works fine, but without passing to functions.

>>> print os.path.exists("/user/server/foo.txt")   True 

What have I missed?

[EDIT:] Output:

Serving file: foo.txt  File exists?: False Serving file: /user/server/foo.txt  File exists?: False 

Answer 1

I'm almost 100% sure you're not sanitizing your input before you check if the path exists. Here's something I ran in my interpreter:

>>> from os.path import exists >>> exists('dog.png') True >>> exists('dog.png\n') False 

Try stripping whitespace on path before you check if it exists.