Month: May 2019

When running programs in Python, I often like to put my output into a folder based on the current time. The following is a code snippet to ensure a file path exists (and logs the folder creation).

import logging
import os


def create_path(file):
    """Creates a path if it does not exist
    :param file: the path/file that we want to check if it exists
    """
    directory, file = os.path.dirname(file), os.path.basename(file)
    if not os.path.exists(directory):
        logging.debug(f"Path {directory} does not exist for {file}, creating it now!")
        os.makedirs(directory)