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How to create new folder? [duplicate]

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You can create a folder with os.makedirs() and use os.path.exists() to see if it already exists: newpath = r’C:\Program Files\arbitrary’ if not os.path.exists(newpath): os.makedirs(newpath) If you’re trying to make an installer: Windows Installer does a lot of work for you.

Is there a way to make mv create the directory to be moved to if it doesn’t exist?

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How about this one-liner (in bash): mkdir –parents ./some/path/; mv yourfile.txt $_ Breaking that down: mkdir –parents ./some/path # if it doesn’t work; try mkdir -p ./some/path creates the directory (including all intermediate directories), after which: mv yourfile.txt $_ moves the file to that directory ($_ expands to the last argument passed to the previous … Read more

mkdir -p functionality in Python [duplicate]

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For Python ≥ 3.5, use pathlib.Path.mkdir: import pathlib pathlib.Path(“/tmp/path/to/desired/directory”).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) The exist_ok parameter was added in Python 3.5. For Python ≥ 3.2, os.makedirs has an optional third argument exist_ok that, when True, enables the mkdir -p functionality—unless mode is provided and the existing directory has different permissions than the intended ones; in that case, OSError … Read more

How to mkdir only if a directory does not already exist?

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Try mkdir -p: mkdir -p foo Note that this will also create any intermediate directories that don’t exist; for instance, mkdir -p foo/bar/baz will create directories foo, foo/bar, and foo/bar/baz if they don’t exist. Some implementation like GNU mkdir include mkdir –parents as a more readable alias, but this is not specified in POSIX/Single Unix … Read more