Creating files and directories via Python

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I m having trouble creating a directory and then opening creating writing into a file in the specified directory  The reason seems unclear to me  I m using os mkdir   and   path chap name print  Path     chap path                        For debugging purposes if not os path exists path       os mkdir path  temp file open path     img alt   jpg   w   temp file write buff  temp file close   print       Done    I get the error   OSError   Errno 2  No such file or directory   Some Path Name   Path is of the form  Folder Name with un-escaped spaces   What am I doing wrong here     Update  I tried running the code without creating the directory  path chap name print  Path     chap path                        For debugging purposes temp file open img alt   jpg   w   temp file write buff  temp file close   print       Done    Still get an error  Confused further     Update 2 The Problem seems to be the img alt  it contains a     in some cases  which makes is causing the trouble   So I need to handle the      Is there anyway to escape the     or is deletion the only option

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import os     os mkdir  directory name        this command for creating directory     os mknod  file name        this for creating files     os system  touch filename      this is another method for creating file by using unix commands in os modules

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import os  path   chap name  if not os path exists path       os makedirs path   filename   img alt     jpg  with open os path join path  filename    wb   as temp file      temp file write buff    Key point is to use os makedirs in place of os mkdir  It is recursive  i e  it generates all intermediate directories  See http   docs python org library os html  Open the file in binary mode as you are storing binary  jpeg  data   In response to Edit 2  if img alt sometimes has     in it   img alt   os path basename img alt

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