Python check if a directory exists, then create it if necessary and save graph to new directory? [duplicate]

Question

so I want this to be independent of the computer the code is used on, so I want to be able to create a directory in the current directory and save my plots to that new file. I looked at some other questions and tried this (I have two attempts, one commented out):

    import os     from os import path     #trying to make shift_graphs directory if it does not already exist:      if not os.path.exists('shift_graphs'):         os.mkdirs('shift_graphs')      plt.title('Shift by position on '+str(detector_num)+'-Detector')     #saving figure to shift_graphs directory     plt.savefig(os.path.join('shift_graphs','shift by position on '+str(detector_num)+'-detector'))     print "plot 5 done"     plt.clf 

I get the error :

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'mkdirs' 

I also want to know if my idea of saving it in the directory will work, which I haven't been able to test because of the errors I've been getting in the above portion.

Answer 1

os.mkdirs() is not a method in os module. if you are making only one direcory then use os.mkdir() and if there are multiple directories try using os.makedirs() Check Documentation