Python script can't find path

Question

When I execute the following line in my script:

if os.path.exists('/home/jsc0606/Desktop/project/myfile.py')

I get False . However, when I execute the same line in the terminal in the same directory, I get True . Does anyone know why Python can't find the file when executing that line in the script?

Answer 1

As stated in the docs about os.path.exists :

On some platforms, this function may return False if permission is not granted to execute os.stat() on the requested file, even if the path physically exists.

I think this may be the case: you're probably running the script with different privileges.