8.3 Creating and removing directories

mkdir creates a single directory below an existing parent. If I am in src, then

os.mkdir("cookie-recipes")

creates the src/cookie-recipes directory. Use rmdir to remove it.

os.rmdir("cookie-recipes")

Suppose we want to create two new directories under src, first the recipes subdirectory, and then cookies within that. You cannot do it with one call to mkdir:

os.mkdir("recipes/cookies")

FileNotFoundError: The system cannot find the path specified:
                   'recipes/cookies'

To use mkdir, you could make two calls:

os.mkdir("recipes")
os.mkdir("recipes/cookies")

Alternatively, use makedirs. It creates any necessary intermediate directories.

os.makedirs("recipes/cookies")

Exercise 8.2

Now that you have created recipes/cookies, what does

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