def check_file_exists()

in scripts/linkchecker.py [0:0]

• 15 lines of code
• 6 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def check_file_exists(base, path, ftype="markdown"):
    """Check if the target file exists.

    NOTE: We build a normalized path using 'base' and 'path' values. Suppose
    the resulted path string is 'foo/bar', we check if 'foo/bar.md' exists,
    AND we check if 'foo/bar/_index.md' exists.

    :param base: The base directory to begin with
    :param path: The link target which is a relative path string
    :returns: A boolean indicating whether the target file exists.
    """
    # NOTE: anchor is ignored, can be a todo item
    parts = path.split("#")

    fn = normalize_filename(parts[0], ftype=ftype)
    target = base + fn

    if os.path.isfile(target):
        return True

    dir_name = base + parts[0]
    if os.path.isdir(dir_name):
        if os.path.isfile(dir_name + "/_index.md"):
            return True
        if os.path.isfile(dir_name + "/_index.html"):
            return True
        # /docs/contribute/style/hugo-shortcodes/ has this
        if os.path.isfile(dir_name + "/index.md"):
            return True
    return False