Python “FileExists” error when making directory
问题 I have several threads running in parallel from Python on a cluster system. Each python thread outputs to a directory mydir . Each script, before outputting checks if mydir exists and if not creates it: if not os.path.isdir(mydir): os.makedirs(mydir) but this yields the error: os.makedirs(self.log_dir) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 157, in makedirs mkdir(name,mode) OSError: [Errno 17] File exists I suspect it might be due to a race condition, where one job creates the dir before the