making a directory

[Skaperen]

i am given a string of a path and need to make a directory there unless one is already there.  so i might need to also make the parents.  is there a slick function/module to do this in python (without installing anything) or is my only easy option to do subprocess.call(['mkdir','-p',dirpath)?

[buran]

os.makedirs does this

[Skaperen]

os.makedirs does this

i searched for this.  i did not know its name nor did i guess the right keywords.  thanks!  i need some better means to find python tools.  i was almost ready to write such a function.

[wavic]

Take a quick tour of os and os.path and look at the purpose of every method. After that you will know what you can do

[Skaperen]

if i read about too many things at once i forget enough about most of them to make that useless. i won't remember the function name or the particular words to describe it. this has happened before, do i know it is real. what i think i need to do is make a web page with all the nice things listed in a short form (one line each). that will be a lot of work.

[wavic]

if i read about too many things at once i forget enough about most of them to make that useless.  i won't remember the function name or the particular words to describe it.  this has happened before, do i know it is real.  what i think i need to do is make a web page with all the nice things listed in a short form (one line each).  that will be a lot of work.

Easy-peasy:

~ $ pydoc -w os os.path
wrote os.html
wrote os.path.html

I think this command comes with the python.

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Wow, I didn't know it. It gets even better :D
Try out:
$ pydoc -p 8080

This will run a web server on port 8080 and you can read the docs in the browser at http://localhost:8080