import os, sys, config def direxists(path): try: os.stat(config.value['ftp_dir']+'/'+path) except OSError, (errno, errmsg): return False else: return True def checkdir(dir): if not direxists(sys.argv[1]): print config.value['ftp_dir']+'/'+sys.argv[1] + " does not exist" sys.exit(1)