On 18Jan2021 16:49, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, at 08:31, Antonio Cavallo wrote:

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I've found myself typing too many time this: pathlib.Path("some-dir-name").mkdir(parent=True, exist_ok=True)

Wouldn't be better to have a pathlib.Path.makedirs with parent/exist_ok set to True by default?

Worth mentioning, that os.makedirs does not set exist_ok to True by default. I have been baffled by this decision, but not following it in pathlib would arguably be an inconsistency.

I fall into the other camp. I like exists_ok=False because it is safer behaviour. If I'm writing code which expects to make a directory, I _almost always_ want that directory to be _new_ and empty, unused by some other purpose. If exists_ok were True by default it would be very easy to write code which accidentally used a directory belonging to something else. I would far rather such reuse required a little thought on my part, by requiring specific calling out that exists_ok=True. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au>

On 18Jan2021 16:49, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, at 08:31, Antonio Cavallo wrote:

...

I've found myself typing too many time this: pathlib.Path("some-dir-name").mkdir(parent=True, exist_ok=True)

Wouldn't be better to have a pathlib.Path.makedirs with parent/exist_ok set to True by default?

Worth mentioning, that os.makedirs does not set exist_ok to True by default. I have been baffled by this decision, but not following it in pathlib would arguably be an inconsistency.

I fall into the other camp. I like exists_ok=False because it is safer behaviour. If I'm writing code which expects to make a directory, I _almost always_ want that directory to be _new_ and empty, unused by some other purpose. If exists_ok were True by default it would be very easy to write code which accidentally used a directory belonging to something else. I would far rather such reuse required a little thought on my part, by requiring specific calling out that exists_ok=True. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au>