Python Doc Error: os.makedirs

Thomas Bellman bellman at lysator.liu.se
Wed Oct 19 16:16:48 EDT 2005


I wrote:

>    try:
>	os.makedirs("/tmp/trh/spam/norwegian/blue/parrot/cheese")
>    except os.error, e:
>	if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
>	    raise

Actually, when I think more about it, one would probably rather
want something like:

    try:
	os.makedirs("/tmp/trh/spam/norwegian/blue/parrot/cheese")
    except os.error, e:
	if ( e.errno != errno.EEXIST  or
	     not os.path.isdir("/tmp/trh/spam/norwegian/blue/parrot/cheese")):
	    raise


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