create a directory in python

July 18th, 2006 by Lawrence David

assuming you’re running some *nix (including mac os x), here’s how to create a directory from within a python script. note that we need to check if the directory exists before creating a directory (if you try and overwrite a directory, python will throw an error).

here goes:

import os;
…
dirname = “my_dir_name”
if not os.path.isdir(“./” + dirname + “/”):
os.mkdir(“./” + dirname + “/”)

note that the last line needs to be indented (silly blogger won’t let me indent that line!)

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16 Responses to “create a directory in python”

on 24 Mar 2008 at 12:08 am Chris Nicholls

Hey, I randomly found this page on google the other day when I was working on some python stuff. This post helped. Thanks.

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Cheers
on 24 Mar 2008 at 7:27 am Lawrence David

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on 11 Jun 2008 at 12:22 pm Slava

Super!!!
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on 15 May 2009 at 11:13 am Eric Wendelin

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on 30 Jul 2009 at 8:02 pm Aman Aggarwal

Thanks!
on 02 Sep 2009 at 8:22 am NT

Nearly 18 months on I have to echo the first commenter’s thoughts – totally cool header.
on 13 Sep 2009 at 11:00 pm Matthew

This also works on Windows unchanged, but like it better like this:

[code]
dirname = "my_dir_name"
if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), dirname)):
os.mkdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), dirname))
[/code]

My $0.02. Nice site BTW.
on 17 Jan 2010 at 12:51 pm Graham

Thanks exactly what I was looking for. Modified Matthew’s code slightly to incorporate recursive directory creation.

#code
import os;

dirname = “mydir”
if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), dirname)):
os.makedirs(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), dirname))
print os.getcwd()
on 22 Jan 2010 at 6:00 am nikunj

Hey, Many thnx for this useful post..!!
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on 28 Jul 2011 at 10:03 am Saurabh

can you guide me how to create a Remote Directory ?
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