How can I create directories recursively

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Is there a Python method to create directories recursively  I have this path    home dail    I would like to create   home dail first second third   Can I do it recursively or I have to create one directory after the other   The same thing for   chmod and chown can I do it recursively without assign permissions for each file dir

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os makedirs is what you need  For chmod or chown you ll have to use os walk and use it on every file dir yourself

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I agree with Cat Plus Plus s answer   However  if you know this will only be used on Unix-like OSes  you can use external calls to the shell commands mkdir  chmod  and chown  Make sure to pass extra flags to recursively affect directories    gt  gt  gt  import subprocess  gt  gt  gt  subprocess check output   mkdir    -p    first second third       Equivalent to running  mkdir -p first second third  in a shell  which creates   parent directories if they do not yet exist     gt  gt  gt  subprocess check output   chown    -R    dail users    first      Recursively change owner to  dail  and group to  users  for  first  and all of   its subdirectories    gt  gt  gt  subprocess check output   chmod    -R    g w    first      Add group write permissions to  first  and all of its subdirectories    EDIT I originally used commands  which was a bad choice since it is deprecated and vulnerable to injection attacks   For example  if a user gave input to create a directory called first  rm -rf --no-preserve-root     one could potentially delete all directories    EDIT 2 If you are using Python less than 2 7  use check call instead of check output  See the subprocess documentation for details

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Here is my implementation for your reference   def  mkdir recursive self  path       sub path   os path dirname path      if not os path exists sub path           self  mkdir recursive sub path      if not os path exists path           os mkdir path    Hope this help

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a fresh answer to a very old question   starting from python 3 2 you can do this   import os path     home dail first second third  os makedirs path  exist ok True    thanks to the exist ok flag this will not even complain if the directory exists  depending on your needs          starting from python 3 4  which includes the pathlib module  you can do this   from pathlib import Path path   Path   home dail first second third   path mkdir parents True      starting from python 3 5 mkdir also has an exist ok flag - setting it to True will raise no exception if the directory exists   path mkdir parents True  exist ok True

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Try using os makedirs   import os import errno  try      os makedirs  lt path gt   except OSError as e      if errno EEXIST    e errno          raise

[python] How can I create directories recursively?

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