How to create new folder?

Question

I want to put output information of my program to a folder. if given folder is not exit, then program should create a new folder with folder name as given in the program. is it possible? if yes please let me how. suppose i have given folder path like "C:\Program Files\alex" and alex folder doesn't exist then program should create alex folder and should put output information in the alex folder.

Answer 1

Have you tried os.mkdir?

You might also try this little code snipped:

mypath = ...
if not os.path.isdir(mypath):
   os.makedirs(mypath)

makedirs does create multiple levels of directories, if needed.

Answer 2

newpath = r'C:\Program Files\alex'; if not os.path.exists(newpath): os.makedirs(newpath)

From Python docs.

It looks like you're trying to make an installer. Windows Installer does a lot of work for you.

Answer 3

You probably want os.makedirs as it will create intermediate directories as well, if needed.

import os

dir makemydir(whatever):
  try:
    os.makedirs(whatever)
  except OSError:
    pass
  # let exception propagate if we just can't
  # cd into the specified directory
  os.chdir(whatever)