Make Directory in python

Question

I want to make a directory in Python.

Here is my code:

dl_path = "~/Downloads/PDMB"

def main():
    if not os.path.exists(dl_path):
        print "path doesn't exist. trying to make"
        os.makedirs(dl_path)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

I want that pdmb be in Download folder in $HOME (by the way my OS is Ubuntu), but it makes Home/Downloads/pdmb in the same folder that my code is.

what should I do?

Solution

You need to use expanduser to expand the '~' path

Here's the code you need

import os
from os.path import expanduser

home = expanduser('~')

dl_path = home + '/Downloads/PDMB'

def main():
    if not os.path.exists(dl_path):
       print "path doesn't exist. trying to make"
       os.makedirs(dl_path)



 if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Comments

[Matthias Fripp]

It would be simpler just to replace dl_path = "~/Downloads/PDMB" in the original code with dl_path = os.path.expanduser("~/Downloads/PDMB") (or better yet, dl_path = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), "Downloads", "PDMB")), since @ali-salehi is already accessing os.path.