[Python-Dev] mkdir -p in python

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Hrvoje Niksic writes:

 > single "branch", not an entire tree.  I'd imagine a mktree function to 
 > accept a data structure describing the tree to be created.

-1 on mktree for that reason.

 > If you're going for a short name distinctive from mkdir, I propose 
 > mksubdirs.

A little more accurate might be mkpath, but I'd be happy with either.
And of course in Unix jargon "path" is ambiguous.