[Python-Dev] mkdir -p in python (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Jul 21 01:10:25 CEST 2010
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On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
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?
Now I have. :-) -1 on a new function (despite the constant-argument guideline) and +1 on a flag. If it weren't for backwards compatibility I'd just change os.makedirs() to act like mkdir -p period, but the last opportunity we had for that was Python 3.0.
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