How to check if a directory is exist in python?

[Vincent Wehren]

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|I check the documentation here, but it does not say how to check if a
| directory is exist in python?
| http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html

Look at the exist or isdir  methods of the os.path module 
(http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html}

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| And why mkdir fails if the directory already exists?

If you prefer a "more friendly" approach you may wanna take a look at Trent 
Mick's _mkdir which is located at
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/82465
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Regards,
Vincent Wehren

| Thank you.
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