Python – How to create a nested directory structure

The pathlib module offers classes representing filesystem paths with semantics appropriate for different operating systems. We can create nested directory structure suing pathlib.Path.mkdir function in Python.

• On Linux:
  
  from pathlib import Path Path("/dir1/dir2/dir3").mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

  1 2	from pathlib import Path Path("/dir1/dir2/dir3").mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

• On Windows:
  
  from pathlib import Path Path("C:\\dir1\\dir2\\dir3").mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

  1 2	from pathlib import Path Path("C:\\dir1\\dir2\\dir3").mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

Here:

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• parents=True: instruct to create parent directories if not available.
• exist_ok=True: Do not throw an error if a directory already exists.

Execute the above Python script and checked for the newly created directory tree.

/dir1
└── dir2
    └── dir3