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In python, I have made a function to make a directory if does not already exist. def make_directory_if_not_exists(path): try: os.makedirs(path) break except OSError as exception: if exception.errno != errno.EEXIST: raise On Windows, sometimes I will get the following exception: WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied: 'C:\\...\\my_path' It seems to happen when the directory is open in the Windows File Browser, but I can't reliably reproduce it. So instead I just made the following workaround. def make_directory_if_not_exists(path): while not os.path.isdir(path): try: os.makedirs(path) break except OSError as exception: if exception.errno != errno.EEXIST: raise except WindowsError: print "got WindowsError" pass What's going on here, i.e. when does Windows mkdir give such an access error? Is there a better solution?
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