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

Hrvoje Niksic hrvoje.niksic at avl.com
Wed Jul 28 09:29:33 CEST 2010


On 07/27/2010 06:18 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:20 AM, R. David Murray<rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

I'd go with putting it in shutil. +1 I would also call it shutil.mktree which will go well with shutil.rmtree next to it.

Note that mktree is not analogous to rmtree - while rmtree removes a directory tree beneath a specified directory, mktree would only create a single "branch", not an entire tree. I'd imagine a mktree function to accept a data structure describing the tree to be created.

If you're going for a short name distinctive from mkdir, I propose mksubdirs.



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