[Python-Dev] mkdir -p in python

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Jul 20 01:11:19 CEST 2010


Ray Allen wrote:

> I think both os.mkdir() and 
> os.makedirs() should add a keyword argument to suppress the "OSError: 
> [Errno 17] File exists".

This could be seen as violating the "no constant arguments"
guideline. Maybe separate function would be better?

-- 
Greg


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