How to create multiple folders inside a directory?-CodePudding

I been working on a Illustrator bot using mostly pyautogui. Recently I discovered that I can create directories using the os module; this is way easier than automating the same process using pyautogui.

My code:

import os

name = str(input("Template Name: "))

def folders_creation():
    templates_path = "D:/JoyTemplates Remastered/Templates"
    os.makedirs(templates_path   "/"   name   "/Etsy Files")
    os.mkdir(templates_path   "/"   name   "/Editing Files")

My code creates a folder with the name that the user inputs; inside templates_path, after this creates two other folders inside name.

I want to know if there's a different way to create multiple folders inside the same path instead of using mkdir for each extra folder.

CodePudding user response：

You can't create multiple folders using os.makedirs(). You can however use list comprehension to do it neatly.

import os

templates_path = "D:/JoyTemplates Remastered/Templates"

name = str(input("Template Name: "))

# Creating your directories
folder_names = ["Etsy Files", "Editing Files"]
[os.makedirs(os.path.join(templates_path, name, folder)) for folder in folder_names]

As a side note, use os.path.join() to join paths,

CodePudding user response：

You could do something like this:

def folders_creation():
    templates_path = "D:/JoyTemplates Remastered/Templates"
    # create the root folder you need
    os.makedirs(templates_path)
    # create multiple subdirs
    for subdir in ['Etsy Files', 'Editing Files']:
        os.mkdir(f'{templates_path}/{subdir}')

(edit: some copy paste errors, thanks @jezza_99)