I believe, in design purpose, the os.mkdir() is to match the system call "mkdir()" exactly, the os.makedirs() is a "Super-mkdir", it provides extra convenience for using when we want to create directories. This is the case makedirs() should deal with. A new function maybe confused with makedirs(). 

I think os.makedirs() should go to shutil, but we have missed the right time.


On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Hrvoje Niksic <hrvoje.niksic@avl.com> wrote:
On 07/27/2010 06:18 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:20 AM, R. David Murray<rdmurray@bitdance.com>  wrote:
 I'd go with putting it in shutil.

+1

I would also call it shutil.mktree which will go well with
shutil.rmtree next to it.

Note that mktree is not analogous to rmtree - while rmtree removes a directory tree beneath a specified directory, mktree would only create a single "branch", not an entire tree.  I'd imagine a mktree function to accept a data structure describing the tree to be created.

If you're going for a short name distinctive from mkdir, I propose mksubdirs.

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