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Hello Everybody.

I am using Python for my code.

I am trying to create folders at the end of a path. My path is /xxx/xxxx/xxxx/TEMP.

I want to dynamicaly create folders after this path in my program. I want something like:

/xxx/xxxx/xxxx/TEMP/Folder1.
/xxx/xxxx/xxxx/TEMP/Folder2.
/xxx/xxxx/xxxx/TEMP/Folder3.

At the moment I am using makedirs but its not working. It says File alreay exists.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mohsin

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Member Avatar for Gribouillis

makedirs() fails if the directory already exists. In this case you don't need to create the directory: simply catch the exception

try:
    os.makedirs(mypath)
except OSError:
    # either dir already exists or can't create.
    # we can check
    if not os.path.isdir(mypath):
        # dir doesn't exist, propagate the exception
        raise
# if we're here, the directory exists
Edited by Gribouillis
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Thank you very much Gribouillis. Its working.... :-)

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