There is not a system call to do it for you, unfortunately. I’m guessing that’s because there isn’t a way to have really well-defined semantics for what should happen in error cases. Should it leave the directories that have already been created? Delete them? What if the deletions fail? And so on… It is pretty … Read more
The mode is modified by your current umask, which is 022 in this case. The way the umask works is a subtractive one. You take the initial permission given to mkdir and subtract the umask to get the actual permission: 0777 – 0022 ====== 0755 = rwxr-xr-x. If you don’t want this to happen, you … Read more
Try mkdir -p: mkdir -p foo Note that this will also create any intermediate directories that don’t exist; for instance, mkdir -p foo/bar/baz will create directories foo, foo/bar, and foo/bar/baz if they don’t exist. Some implementation like GNU mkdir include mkdir –parents as a more readable alias, but this is not specified in POSIX/Single Unix … Read more
For Python ≥ 3.5, use pathlib.Path.mkdir: import pathlib pathlib.Path(“/tmp/path/to/desired/directory”).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) The exist_ok parameter was added in Python 3.5. For Python ≥ 3.2, os.makedirs has an optional third argument exist_ok that, when True, enables the mkdir -p functionality—unless mode is provided and the existing directory has different permissions than the intended ones; in that case, OSError … Read more
Just urlencode the string desired as a filename. All characters returned from urlencode are valid in filenames (NTFS/HFS/UNIX), then you can just urldecode the filenames back to UTF-8 (or whatever encoding they were in). Caveats (all apply to the solutions below as well): After url-encoding, the filename must be less that 255 characters (probably bytes). … Read more