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

Clinton Roy clinton.roy at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 10:11:44 CEST 2010


Hey folks,

On 21 July 2010 10:37, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

Perhaps all we need is a recipe in the docs: try:  os.makedirs(path) except OSError, e:  if e.errno != 17:  raise I don't like writing code that depends on particular errno values, because I don't trust it to work cross- platform.

I use errno.EEXIST instead of a magic number.

later,

Clinton Roy Software Engineer Global Change Institute University of Queensland

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