Verifying the Existence of a File Using Python

In Python, you can easily determine whether a text file is empty or not using the os module. This module provides various tools for interacting with the operating system.

To check if a file is empty, you can use the following steps:

1. Import the os module.
2. Obtain the file's size using os.stat("file").st_size.
3. Check if the file size is equal to 0. If it is, the file is empty; otherwise, it's not.

Here's an example code snippet that demonstrates this:

import os

# Example file path
file_path = "file.txt"

# Check if the file is empty
if os.stat(file_path).st_size == 0:
    print("The file is empty.")
else:
    print("The file is not empty.")

This code imports the os module, retrieves the file's size, and compares it to 0. If the file is empty, it prints "The file is empty"; otherwise, it prints "The file is not empty."