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Tue Jul 20 18:49:58 CEST 2010 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/102104.html

On 20/07/2010 14:43, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Steven D'Aprano<steve at pearwood.info>  wrote:
>    
>> I'm -0 on adding an argument to os.makedirs, +0 on adding a variant
>> function to os, and +0.5 on adding the variant to the shutil module.
>>      
> shutil seems like the place for it to me. The subtlety of getting the
> error suppression correct makes it worth implementing this once and
> for all I think.
>    

Really - so we have two almost identical functions with slightly 
different behaviour in different standard library modules? Aren't the 
Python APIs for working with files and paths confused enough already. 
That seems crazy to me and a switch on os.makedirs much more sensible.

Michael
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
>
>    

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