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

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Wed Jul 21 00:35:45 CEST 2010


On 20Jul2010 17:49, 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?

Three if you count os.mkdir itself as well.

| 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.

+1 from me. Hasn't the BDFL blessed this particular suggestion too?

Disclaimer: I am not a dev.

Cheers,

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