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# Python : os.makedirs -- Creating order via sub-directories
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## The goal
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How can I make sure that the directory for my output data is always there? We just create it automatically every time via [os.makedirs](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.makedirs)!
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Questions to [David Rotermund](mailto:davrot@uni-bremen.de)
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## Creating a directory
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```python
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import os
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some_path: str = "a_home_for_my_data"
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os.makedirs(some_path, exist_ok=True)
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```
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## Creating a sub-sub-sub-directory
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First of all, it is important to be aware that different operation systems have different separators in path names. Thus we don't want to write the directory ourself. We want python to handle it for us.
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There are different ways to do that.
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One way is to use [os.path.join](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.join):
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```python
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import os
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some_path: str = os.path.join("a", "b", "c")
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print(some_path) # -> a/b/c under Linux and a\b\c under Windows.
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```
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An alternative way is to use [os.sep](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.sep):
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```python
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import os
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some_path: str = f"a{os.sep}b{os.sep}c"
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print(some_path) # -> a/b/c under Linux and a\b\c under Windows.
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```
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Now we can create sub-sub-sub-directory with such a path.
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```python
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import os
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some_path: str = f"a{os.sep}b{os.sep}c"
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os.makedirs(some_path, exist_ok=True)
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```
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## Checking if a directory exists
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There are two nice ways to check if a directory exists:
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[os.path.isdir](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.isdir) and [os.path.exists](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html#os.path.exists)
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How ever the latter is also return true if a file with the same name exists.
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```python
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import os
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some_path: str = f"a{os.sep}b{os.sep}c"
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os.makedirs(some_path, exist_ok=True)
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print(os.path.exists(some_path)) # -> True
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print(os.path.isfile(some_path)) # -> False
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print(os.path.isdir(some_path)) # -> True
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```
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