If I wanted to specify a path to save files to and make directories that don’t exist in that path, is it possible to do this using the pathlib library in one line of code?
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Answer
Yes, that is Path.mkdir
:
pathlib.Path('/tmp/sub1/sub2').mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
From the docs:
If parents is true, any missing parents of this path are created as needed; they are created with the default permissions without taking mode into account (mimicking the POSIX
mkdir -p
command).If parents is false (the default), a missing parent raises
FileNotFoundError
.If exist_ok is false (the default),
FileExistsError
is raised if the target directory already exists.If exist_ok is true,
FileExistsError
exceptions will be ignored (same behavior as the POSIXmkdir -p
command), but only if the last path component is not an existing non-directory file.