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Python in a Nutshell
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Python in a Nutshell

by Alex Martelli
March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
39h 30m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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makedirs, mkdir

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makedirs(path,mode=0777)
mkdir(path,mode=0777)

makedirs creates all directories that are part of path and do not yet exist. mkdir creates only the rightmost directory of path. Both functions use mode as permission bits of directories they create. Both functions raise OSError if creation fails or if a file or directory named path already exists.

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