Change os.makedirs to handle existing directory

[Tim Delaney]

On 14 February 2012 09:59, Wanderer <wanderer at dialup4less.com> wrote:

> I think wanting to create a directory if one doesn't exist or do
> nothing if it does exist and just use the existing directory is a
> fairly normal programming need. Apparently this is somewhat
> complicated in Python.
> ...
> IMHO, os.makedirs should do this for you with something like
>
> os.makedirs(dirName, exist = False)
>
> and have makedirs silence the error the 'right' way whatever that is,
> without turning it into an exercise for the user.


Added in 3.2:
http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/os.html?highlight=makedirs#os.makedirs

Tim Delaney
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