[Python-Dev] mkdir -p in python
Bill Janssen
janssen at parc.com
Tue Jul 20 20:15:49 CEST 2010
Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> On 20/07/2010 14:43, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano<steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm -0 on adding an argument to os.makedirs, +0 on adding a variant
> >> function to os, and +0.5 on adding the variant to the shutil module.
> >>
> > shutil seems like the place for it to me. The subtlety of getting the
> > error suppression correct makes it worth implementing this once and
> > for all I think.
> >
>
> Really - so we have two almost identical functions with slightly
> different behaviour in different standard library modules? Aren't the
> Python APIs for working with files and paths confused enough
> already. That seems crazy to me and a switch on os.makedirs much more
> sensible.
Yep, me too.
Bill
>
> Michael
> > Cheers,
> > Nick.
> >
> >
> >
>
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