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Tip: Making Directories Recursively With Python
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This is Day 8 of the #100DaysOfPython challenge.
Today's post is a quick overview of making directories recursively (if they do not exist).
Let's create the
hello-recursive-dirs directory and install Pillow.# Make the `hello-recursive-dirs` directory
$ mkdir hello-recursive-dirs
$ cd hello-recursive-dirs
# Create a file for our script
$ touch main.pyThe OS library has a function
makedirs that can be used to make directories recursively.In this example, let's create the folder
tmp/deep/folder.Add the following code to
main.py:import os
new_folder_name = 'tmp/deep/folder'
if not os.path.exists(new_folder_name):
os.makedirs(new_folder_name)Run the script with
python main.py and confirm that the folder was created.Photo credit: pawel_czerwinski
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