Thomas Bellman wrote:
try:
os.makedirs(/tmp/trh/spam/norwegian/blue/parrot/cheese)
except os.error, e:
if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
raise
This is what i want. Thanks.
(the doc needs quite some improvement...)
Xah
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:26:16AM -0700, Dr. Who wrote:
The fact that the directory already exists is irrelevant to the function...it
still failed to create the directory.
That's not true. Imagine that os.makedirs() is used inside tempfile.mkdtemp()
(I looked, and it isn't) and the proposed
if os.access( path, os.F_OK):
print 'path exists'
See also os.stat(path) for further info. about a file or dir.
regards, Paul Clinch
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Xah Lee wrote:
i think the function shouldn't complain if dir already exists. How is a
programer to distinguish if the dir already exists, or if there's a
problem creating the dir?
Of course it should thrown an exception because it was unable to do
what it was asked: create a directory. The
if not os.path.isdir(your_dir_name):
makedirs(your_dir_name)
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Xah Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Throws an error exception should be Throws an OSError
exception.
Both are correct:
os.error is OSError
True
That is even documented in http://python.org/doc/lib/module-os.html:
error
This exception is raised when a function returns a
I wrote:
try:
os.makedirs(/tmp/trh/spam/norwegian/blue/parrot/cheese)
except os.error, e:
if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
raise
Actually, when I think more about it, one would probably rather
want something like:
try:
Python doc problem:
http://python.org/doc/2.4.2/lib/os-file-dir.html
makedirs( path[, mode])
Recursive directory creation function. Like mkdir(), but makes all
intermediate-level directories needed to contain the leaf directory.
Throws an error exception if the leaf directory already
