os.mkdir(path) returns OSError when directory does not exist

Question

I am calling os.mkdir to create a folder with a certain set of generated data. However, even though the path I specified has not been created, the os.mkdi

Answer 1

Happened to me on Windows, maybe this is the case:

Like you I was trying to :

os.mkdir(dirname)

and got OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: ''. When I ran:

os.path.exists(dirname)

I got false, and it drove me mad for a while :)

The problem was: In a certain window I was at the specific directory. Even though it did not exists at that time (I removed it from linux). The solution was to close that window \ navigate to somewhere else. Shameful, I know ...