[Python-Dev] mkdir -p in python (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Tue Jul 20 20:15:49 CEST 2010


Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

On 20/07/2010 14:43, Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano<steve at pearwood.info> wrote: > >> I'm -0 on adding an argument to os.makedirs, +0 on adding a variant >> function to os, and +0.5 on adding the variant to the shutil module. >> > shutil seems like the place for it to me. The subtlety of getting the > error suppression correct makes it worth implementing this once and > for all I think. >

Really - so we have two almost identical functions with slightly different behaviour in different standard library modules? Aren't the Python APIs for working with files and paths confused enough already. That seems crazy to me and a switch on os.makedirs much more sensible.

Yep, me too.

Bill

Michael > Cheers, > Nick. > > >

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