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Author	gvanrossum
Recipients	draghuram, gvanrossum, ijmorlan
Date	2007-12-20.20:03:33
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Message-id	<1198181013.83.0.783636707028.issue1675@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I think we can fix this as follows: whenever it calls os.mkdir() and an error is returned, check if that is EISDIR or EEXISTS, and if so, check that indeed it now exists as a directory, and then ignore the error. Moreover, I'd like to do this for the ultimate path to be created as well, so that os.makedirs(<existing directory>) will succeed instead of failing. This would make the common usage pattern much simpler. I think it should still fail if the path exists as a file though. (Or as a symlink to a file.) Patch welcome! I think this is a feature request and hence should only be fixed in 2.6.

I think we can fix this as follows: whenever it calls os.mkdir() and an
error is returned, check if that is EISDIR or EEXISTS, and if so, check
that indeed it now exists as a directory, and then ignore the error.

Moreover, I'd like to do this for the ultimate path to be created as
well, so that os.makedirs(<existing directory>) will succeed instead of
failing.  This would make the common usage pattern much simpler.

I think it should still fail if the path exists as a file though.  (Or
as a symlink to a file.)

Patch welcome!

I think this is a feature request and hence should only be fixed in 2.6.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2007-12-20 20:03:33	gvanrossum	set	spambayes_score: 0.0836739 -> 0.08367388 recipients: + gvanrossum, draghuram, ijmorlan
2007-12-20 20:03:33	gvanrossum	set	spambayes_score: 0.0836739 -> 0.0836739 messageid: <1198181013.83.0.783636707028.issue1675@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2007-12-20 20:03:33	gvanrossum	link	issue1675 messages
2007-12-20 20:03:33	gvanrossum	create