Most pythonic way to delete a file which may not exist

Question

I want to delete the file filename if it exists. Is it proper to say

if os.path.exists(filename):
    os.remove(filename)

Is

Answer 1

Matt's answer is the right one for older Pythons and Kevin's the right answer for newer ones.

If you wish not to copy the function for silentremove, this functionality is exposed in path.py as remove_p:

from path import Path
Path(filename).remove_p()