Kushal Kumaran <kus...@locationd.net> wrote: > 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. > It was rather using os.mekedirs() to create a single directory that seemed wrong. If os.mkdir() had exist_ok=True than that would have been the obvious way to do it.
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