# From curl  http://armstrong.cc/~steven/tmp/makedirs.py:

#!/usr/bin/env python2

import os

def makedirs(path, mode=0o777, exist_ok=False):
    try:
        os.makedirs(path, mode=mode, exist_ok=exist_ok)
    except TypeError:
        try:
            os.makedirs(path, mode=mode)
        except OSError as e:
            if exist_ok and e.errno == 17: # File exists
                pass
            else:
                raise


makedirs('/tmp/python/makedirs')

try:
    makedirs('/tmp/python/makedirs')
except OSError as e:
    print(e)

makedirs('/tmp/python/makedirs', exist_ok=True)