Improvement ?

[Peter Hansen]

Jean-Marc Ranger wrote:

> With Python 2.3.3 for Windows, I understand why
> os.makedirs("C:\SomeDirectoryThatDontExist\.\AnotherDirectory") fails
> throwing an exception saying "OSError: [Errno 17] File exists" - the
> period is like a request to create the same directory a second time.
> 
> But is this the expected behavior ?  I personaly would prefer to see
> this operation succeed - and don't like the idea of writing a
> workaround :)

Wouldn't using os.path.normpath() on the string first be a
really really easy workaround?

-Peter