Create directories or folders in Python

To create directories or folders in python, depends on how you call it, use the mkdir function of os.

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This function can throw an exception so it should normally be used within a try statement.

import os

# geekole.com

# The name of the folder or directory to be created is defined
directory = "/home/geekole/Documents/python/files/test_dir"

try:
    os.mkdir(directory)
except OSError:
    print("The creation of the directory %s failed" % directory)
else:
    print("Directory has been created: %s " % directory)

In our case the “test_dir” folder does not exist, when executing the code it is created without problems.

If we run the code a second time, with the already existing folder, an error would be generated.

“The creation of the directory /home… /files/test_dir failed”

We hope this example of how to create directories or folders in python will be useful to you.

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