On Fri, Apr 28 2023 at 04:55:41 PM, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here but I can't see an elegant > way to do this. I want to create a directory, but if it exists it's > not an error and the code should just continue. > > So, I have:- > > for dirname in listofdirs: > try: > os.mkdir(dirname) > except FileExistsError: > # so what can I do here that says 'carry on regardless' > except: > # handle any other error, which is really an error > > # I want code here to execute whether or not dirname exists > > > Do I really have to use a finally: block? It feels rather clumsy. > > I suppose I could test if the directory exists before the os.mkdir() > but again that feels a bit clumsy somehow. > > I suppose also I could use os.mkdirs() with exist_ok=True but again > that feels vaguely wrong somehow. >
Why does exist_ok=True feel wrong to you? This is exactly what it is there for. -- regards, kushal -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
