What is the proper way to take a directory path as user input?

Question

Below is a snippet of code I am trying to use to take a directory path as \"raw input\" from the user. I receive the following error after the input is taken from the user:<

Answer 1

It seems you want to check if the directory exists.

If so, see os.path.isdir.

os.path.isdir(path)
    Return True if path is an existing directory.
    This follows symbolic links, so both islink()
    and isdir() can be true for the same path.

You can do like this:

s = raw_input();
if os.path.isdir(s):
    f = open(s, "r+")
else:
    print "Directory not exists."