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How to check if a directory is exist in python?

I check the documentation here, but it does not say how to check if a
directory is exist in python?
http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html

And why mkdir fails if the directory already exists?

Thank you.

Mar 19 '06 #1
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Check out os.path.isdir(p ath_name)

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html

Mar 19 '06 #2
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|I check the documentation here, but it does not say how to check if a
| directory is exist in python?
| http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html

Look at the exist or isdir methods of the os.path module
(http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html}

|
| And why mkdir fails if the directory already exists?

If you prefer a "more friendly" approach you may wanna take a look at Trent
Mick's _mkdir which is located at
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo...n/Recipe/82465
|

Regards,
Vincent Wehren

| Thank you.
|
Mar 19 '06 #3
"Vincent Wehren" <vi*****@visual trans.de> wrote in message
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| <yi*****@gmail. com> wrote in message
| news:11******** *************@j 33g2000cwa.goog legroups.com...
||I check the documentation here, but it does not say how to check if a
|| directory is exist in python?
|| http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html
|
| Look at the exist or isdir methods of the os.path module

Ofcourse I mean "exists"...

| (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html}
|
||
|| And why mkdir fails if the directory already exists?
|
| If you prefer a "more friendly" approach you may wanna take a look at
Trent
| Mick's _mkdir which is located at
| http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo...n/Recipe/82465
||
|
| Regards,
| Vincent Wehren
|
|| Thank you.
||
|
|
Mar 19 '06 #4
Vincent Wehren wrote:
| <yi*****@gmail. com> wrote in message
| news:11******** *************@j 33g2000cwa.goog legroups.com...
||I check the documentation here, but it does not say how to check if a
|| directory is exist in python?
|| http://docs.python.org/lib/os-file-dir.html
|
| Look at the exist or isdir methods of the os.path module

Ofcourse I mean "exists"...

You also mean "functions" , not "methods". *Classes* have methods.

regards
Steve
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