"tgiles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (now that I've posted in the wrong flipping newsgroup the first thing, > here's my question to the lovely python folks) > > I've taken a year off (or so) using Python and the first thing I run > into utterly stumped me. Been too long and none of the searches I've > done seems to have helped any. > Basically, I'm trying to create a little script which will make a new > directory, using the argument passed to it to give the directory a > name: > > #!/usr/bin/python > import sys, os > newDirectory = str(sys.argv[1:])
If you are only going to make one dir at a time, newDir = sys.argv[1] > currentPath = str(os.getcwd()) > create = currentPath + '/' + newDirectory os.path has platform-independent function to do this tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list