python - specifically handle file exists exception

Question

I have come across examples in this forum where a specific error around files and directories is handled by testing the errno value in OSError (or

Answer 1

According to the code print ..., it seems like you're using Python 2.x. FileExistsError was added in Python 3.3; You can't use FileExistsError.

Use errno.EEXIST:

import os
import errno

try:
    os.mkdir(folderPath)
except OSError as e:
    if e.errno == errno.EEXIST:
        print('Directory not created.')
    else:
        raise