[Python-Dev] mkdir -p in python

[Cameron Simpson]

On 20Jul2010 17:49, 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?

Three if you count os.mkdir itself as well.

| 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.

+1 from me. Hasn't the BDFL blessed this particular suggestion too?

Disclaimer: I am _not_ a dev.

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