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Create a folder with Python
import os
def createFolder(directory):
try:
if not os.path.exists(directory):
os.makedirs(directory)
except OSError:
print ('Error: Creating directory. ' + directory)
# Example
createFolder('./data/')
# Creates a folder in the current directory called data
@CosmicCruiser
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Thks...

@ganeshhubale
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Thank you so much

@rec16005
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Thank you!
If someone is getting a unicode error when trying to create a folder in a directory (C\Users\etc...) just duplicate all backslashes like this (C\Users\etc...)

@stefan-wullems
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Saved me from writing 600+ new directories.

@j5207
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j5207 commented Jul 11, 2018

Thanks

@hjoon0510
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good!

@hjoon0510
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I wonder how decide directory name?

@gwangjinkim
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gwangjinkim commented Aug 23, 2018

Isn't this all already done by

import os
os.makedirs(directory, exist_ok = True)

? (thanks @EricHedengren for correction below! ;)

exist ok = True checks for existence and makes dir created if not existing

OSErrors from the os package will do the error messaging ...

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EmoryMullis commented Sep 16, 2018

hjoon0510 I am working on learning Python myself but as to selecting the NAME. I import the "socket", then set a variable to hostname = socket.gethostname(). I can then call that variable to name my file or directory. Again I am trying to learn also so there may be a better way to do it but here is the code I am playing with to learn.
import wmi
import datetime
import sys
import os
import platform
import getpass
import socket
import ifaddr
from psutil import virtual_memory

ps = platform.system()
pr = platform.release()
build = platform.version()
cdir = os.getcwd()
mem = virtual_memory()
username = getpass.getuser()
hostname = socket.gethostname()
adapters = ifaddr.get_adapters()
mType = platform.machine()
pType = platform.processor()
currentDT = datetime.datetime.now()

def createFolder(directory):
try:
if not os.path.exists(hostname):
os.makedirs(hostname)
except OSError:
return ('Error: Creating directory. ' + hostname)

createFolder('./hostname/')

sys.stdout = open("%s %s" % (hostname, (currentDT.strftime("%m%d%Y %H%M%S"))) + ".txt", "w+")

HDs = wmi.WMI()
for hdSerialnum in HDs.Win32_PhysicalMedia():
print(hdSerialnum.Tag.strip("\.\PHYSICAL"), hdSerialnum.SerialNumber)
print('')

print("Installed OS: " + ps + '\n' + "OS Version: " + pr + '\n' + "OS Build: " + build + '\n' +
"Current Dir: " + cdir + '\n' + "Machine Type: " + mType + '\n' + "Processor: " +
pType + '\n' + "RAM Total: " + str(mem.total) + '\n' + "Current User Name: "
+ username + '\n' + "Computer Name: " + hostname + '\n')

for adapter in adapters:
print(adapter.nice_name)
for ip in adapter.ips:
print(" %s/%s" % (ip.ip, ip.network_prefix))

sys.stdout.close()

@niceinjeolmi
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thank you so much!

@figmulberry
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This is wonderful!

@rohit1607
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Thanks alot!

@DongaEG
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DongaEG commented Sep 1, 2019

thank u

@Matin-B
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Matin-B commented Sep 20, 2019

Thanks

@GwenVCX
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GwenVCX commented Sep 30, 2019

Thank you! :)

@chichur
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chichur commented Oct 25, 2019

Thank BRO!!!

@sankarsarika74
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you can change your directory by os.chdir

@KasperRagnar
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Thank you

@DATTUSAM
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Thank you very much..... keithweaver

if anybody facing issue while creating the folder, followed with an error message like this
def createFolder(D:\Sampath\web_scrapper\temp):
^
SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character

please just duplicate with a backslash for the directory you want to create. Here I want to create a Temp folder in web_scrapper folder
createFolder('D:\Sampath\PAMM_web_scrapper/temp/')

@eric-hedengren
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eric-hedengren commented Jul 9, 2020

Isn't this all already done by

import os
os.mkdirs(directory, exist_ok = True)

?

exist ok = True checks for existence and makes dir created if not existing

OSErrors from the os package will do the error messaging ...

You're right @gwangjinkim. Just switch mkdirs to makedirs and it's good to go.

import os
os.makedirs(directory, exist_ok = True)

@gwangjinkim
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@EricHedengren thanks! True! I always have to look this up anew.

@khu17jain
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if i would like to create two folders in single directory how to do that

@eric-hedengren
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@khu17jain Write two makedirs statements to the same location. For loop it if you have a lot.

@tzuhungbrian
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best code I have ever found, thx!

@JeremyMeissner
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Thank you!

@Hemantphareesh
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how to create a folder with name in format yyyy-mm-dd from any year to today

@DanialBahrizadeh
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thank you man ``

@SaberKazemii
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Great! Thanks so much!

@lucasgcruz
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Thank you, very useful and helped me understand the command.

@sourcecodemage
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NIce! Thanks for posting.

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