Zooko O'Whielacronx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Here's the version of this that I've been using for almost a decade now:
http://allmydata.org/trac/pyutil/browser/pyutil/pyutil/fileutil.py?rev=127#L241 Actually I used to have a bigger version that could optionally require certain things of the mode of the directory, but it turned out that I wasn't going to need it. def make_dirs(dirname, mode=0777): """ An idempotent version of os.makedirs(). If the dir already exists, do nothing and return without raising an exception. If this call creates the dir, return without raising an exception. If there is an error that prevents creation or if the directory gets deleted after make_dirs() creates it and before make_dirs() checks that it exists, raise an exception. """ tx = None try: os.makedirs(dirname, mode) except OSError, x: tx = x if not os.path.isdir(dirname): if tx: raise tx raise exceptions.IOError, "unknown error prevented creation of directory, or deleted the directory immediately after creation: %s" % dirname # careful not to construct an IOError with a 2-tuple, as that has a special meaning... ---------- nosy: +zooko _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1675> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
