OS.MKDIR( ) Overwriting previous folder created...

[Jeffrey Schwab]

Ernesto wrote:
> I couldn't find this with a search, but isn't there a way to overwrite
> a previous folder (or at least not perform osmkdir( ) if your program
> detects it already exists).  Thanks !

Would something like this help?

import os

def failsafe_mkdir(dirname):
	try:     os.mkdir(dirname)
	except:  return False
	else:    return True


if __name__ == "__main__":
	dirname = 'adir'
	if failsafe_mkdir(dirname):
		print "ok\n"
	else:
		print "couldn't create %s\n" % dirname