How to overwrite a folder if it already exists when creating it with makedirs?

Question

The following code allows me to create a directory if it does not already exist.

dir = \'path_to_my_folder\'
if not os.path.exists(dir):
    os.makedirs(dir)         


        

Answer 1

import os
import shutil

path = 'path_to_my_folder'
if not os.path.exists(path):
    os.makedirs(path)
else:
    shutil.rmtree(path)           # Removes all the subdirectories!
    os.makedirs(path)

How about that? Take a look at shutil's Python library!