[Python-Dev] mkdir -p in python

[Hrvoje Niksic]

On 07/27/2010 06:18 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:20 AM, R. David Murray<rdmurray at bitdance.com>  wrote:
>>  I'd go with putting it in shutil.
>
> +1
>
> I would also call it shutil.mktree which will go well with
> shutil.rmtree next to it.

Note that mktree is not analogous to rmtree - while rmtree removes a 
directory tree beneath a specified directory, mktree would only create a 
single "branch", not an entire tree.  I'd imagine a mktree function to 
accept a data structure describing the tree to be created.

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