This is Day 8 of the #100DaysOfPython challenge.
Today’s post is a quick overview of making directories recursively (if they do not exist).
Getting started
Let’s create the hello-recursive-dirs directory and install Pillow.
Using the OS module to create folders recursively
The OS library has a function makedirs that can be used to make directories recursively.
In this example, let’s create the folder tmp/deep/folder.
Add the following code to main.py:
Run the script with python main.py and confirm that the folder was created.
Resources and further reading
Photo credit: pawel_czerwinski
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