On 03Apr2015 16:21, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote:
On 04/03/2015 08:50 AM, Saran A wrote:
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 8:05:14 AM UTC-4, Dave Angel wrote:
On 04/02/2015 07:43 PM, Saran A wrote:
os.mkdir('Success')
As you correctly stated:
What do you do the second time through this function, when that
directory is already existing?
copy_and_move_file( 'Failure')
[...]
How would I ensure that this s directory is made only once and every file that
is passeed goes only to 'success' or 'failure'?
Well, you could use an if clause checking with os.exist(). If the
directory already exists, don't call the mkdir function. That may not
be perfect, but it should suffice for an assignment at your level.
As a general remark that's slightly racy: checking, then doing. On all UNIX
platforms, and probably Windows and others, mkdir is atomic: it works or it
does not. So the reliable way tends to look like this:
try:
os.mkdir("blah")
except FileExistsError:
... the directory exists, act accordingly ...
except:
... something else went wrong, complain, abort, whatever
else:
... directory successfully made ...
FileExistsError only came in in Python 3.3, for earlier Pythons catch OSError
and check the exception's .errno against errno.EEXIST.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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