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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-06-12 06:28:58 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-06-12 06:28:58 (GMT) |
| commit | ab776cef9d660e05cecd2e5183635c749af92a6e (patch) | |
| tree | c9ac4e6b4ed8777aba9d42e3b0b7041c5921633e /Doc | |
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Document that an existing directory raises in mkdir().
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diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst index 64e04be..959c18c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/os.rst +++ b/Doc/library/os.rst @@ -1175,7 +1175,8 @@ Files and Directories Create a directory named *path* with numeric mode *mode*. The default *mode* is ``0777`` (octal). On some systems, *mode* is ignored. Where it is used, the - current umask value is first masked out. + current umask value is first masked out. If the directory already exists, + :exc:`OSError` is raised. It is also possible to create temporary directories; see the :mod:`tempfile` module's :func:`tempfile.mkdtemp` function. |