[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-24 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfrever@gmail.com added the comment: I suggest to raise exception when target regular file exists: try: mkdir(name, mode) except OSError as e: if not (exist_ok and e.errno == errno.EEXIST and path.isdir(name)): raise --

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-21 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: On windows, I can only import nt, not posix, ce, os2. import posix Traceback (most recent call last): File pyshell#0, line 1, in module import posix ImportError: No module named posix import nt dir(nt) ['F_OK', 'O_APPEND', 'O_BINARY',

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-21 Thread Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum gu...@python.org added the comment: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Terry J. Reedy rep...@bugs.python.org wrote: Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Discussion has continued on pydev thread mkdir -p in python. Some suggested a new function. Others

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-21 Thread Ray.Allen
Ray.Allen ysj@gmail.com added the comment: I found in Modules/posixmodule.c that: #if (defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__WATCOMC__) || defined(__BORLANDC__)) !defined(__QNX__) #define INITFUNC PyInit_nt #define MODNAME nt #elif defined(PYOS_OS2) #define INITFUNC PyInit_os2 #define MODNAME

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-21 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Guido: Hm. I wonder if os.mkdir() should not be left alone (so as to continue to match the system call most exactly, as is our convention) and the extra functionality added to os.makedirs() only. Sticking with that convention seems like a

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-21 Thread Ray.Allen
Ray.Allen ysj@gmail.com added the comment: Agree! Sure, the functions in os are mainly to simulate the system call but not the system command. This seems like a good suggestion. So here is the new patch which leave posixmodule.c alone and just wrappers os.mkdir() with try...except... in

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-20 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Discussion has continued on pydev thread mkdir -p in python. Some suggested a new function. Others questioned the details of the new behavior. Guido prefers the flag approach and imitation of mkdir -p. -1 on a new function (despite the

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-20 Thread Ray.Allen
Ray.Allen ysj@gmail.com added the comment: Thanks for conclusion! I'll try to check and improve my patch. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9299 ___

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-20 Thread Ray.Allen
Ray.Allen ysj@gmail.com added the comment: I update my patch with improved doc string of posix_mkdir. By the way, after I search in the source, I could not find the nt, os2, ce modules, I guess these modules only exist in python source at one time, maybe very earlier releases, but not

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Ray.Allen
New submission from Ray.Allen ysj@gmail.com: As discussed in python-dev mailing list, something should be add to os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() to simulate the shell's mkdir -p function, that is, suppress the OSError exception if the target directory exists. Here is a patch against py3k,

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
Changes by Giampaolo Rodola' g.rod...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +giampaolo.rodola ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9299 ___ ___

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Giampaolo Rodola'
Giampaolo Rodola' g.rod...@gmail.com added the comment: I don't think this can go into 2.7. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9299 ___

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Ray.Allen
Changes by Ray.Allen ysj@gmail.com: Removed file: http://bugs.python.org/file18059/mkdir_py3k.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9299 ___

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Ray.Allen
Ray.Allen ysj@gmail.com added the comment: I update the patch since an problem is found in doc/library/os.rst. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file18060/mkdir_py3k.diff ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Isaac Morland
Isaac Morland ijmor...@uwaterloo.ca added the comment: This exact issue has already been discussed in Issue 1675. -- nosy: +ijmorlan ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9299 ___

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Isaac Morland
Isaac Morland ijmor...@uwaterloo.ca added the comment: How different is this issue from Issue 1608579, Issue 1239890, Issue 1223238, and Issue 1314067? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9299

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Ray.Allen
Ray.Allen ysj@gmail.com added the comment: If I understander correctly, Issue 1608579, Issue 1239890, Issue 1223238, and Issue 1314067 all deal with the case that the intermediate directories already exists during creating them caused by race condition, but if the target directory(the

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment: Since this is a library issue, it can go into 3.2. It is definitely a feature request, hence not in 2.7. Code that depends on the exception suppression would crash on an earlier release.

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Terry J. Reedy
Changes by Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu: -- nosy: +draghuram, gagenellina, gvanrossum, zooko ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9299 ___

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Éric Araujo
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- nosy: +merwok ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9299 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
Changes by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfrever@gmail.com: -- nosy: +Arfrever ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9299 ___

[issue9299] os.mkdir() and os.makedirs() add a keyword argument to suppress File exists exception.

2010-07-19 Thread Ray.Allen
Ray.Allen ysj@gmail.com added the comment: Thanks for reviewing! The name 'ensure_exist' for the new parameter strikes me as wrong, as well as too long for something that will nearly always be set to True. The function always ensures that the directory exists. The question is whether