[Python-Dev] mkdir -p in python
Isaac Morland
ijmorlan at uwaterloo.ca
Tue Jul 20 15:51:42 CEST 2010
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I tend to agree. Perhaps all we need is a recipe in the docs:
>
> try:
> os.makedirs(path)
> except OSError, e:
> if e.errno != 17:
> raise
What if the path or a parent of it already exists as a file? If one has
requested -p I believe one typically wants this to be an error. And I
assume that one would not use the literal 17 in production code.
Isaac Morland CSCF Web Guru
DC 2554C, x36650 WWW Software Specialist
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