How to check if a file exists in Go?

Question

Go\'s standard library does not have a function solely intended to check if a file exists or not (like Python\'s os.path.exists). What is the idiomatic way

Answer 1

    _, err := os.Stat(file)
    if err == nil {
        log.Printf("file %s exists", file)
    } else if os.IsNotExist(err) {
        log.Printf("file %s not exists", file)
    } else {
        log.Printf("file %s stat error: %v", file, err)
    }