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 fact that the directory already exists is irrelevant to the function...it still failed to create the directory. And I have had situations where attempting to create a directory that already exists was an error condition. Jeff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
