Description

No need to do an extra syscall to figure out if a file is a file or if it exists if we can just catch a FileNotFoundError or similar.

Also kind of avoids a couple possible TOCTOU races.

Screenshots/videos:

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Checklist:

• I have read contributing wiki page
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• My code follows the style guidelines
• My code passes tests