Railway•17mo ago

Issue while creating a directory

Hey, I am trying to run a Django application . There is a section where I want to create a directory programmatically. When I am trying to create a directory, it is not giving any error, but it is not creating the directory. could you please help me to find the solution?

20 Replies

Percy•17mo ago

Project ID: 06a78b22-a3ba-46f2-a16d-2f2ee81b0ed9

ananthankichuOP•17mo ago

06a78b22-a3ba-46f2-a16d-2f2ee81b0ed9

Brody•17mo ago

does this work locally

ananthankichuOP•17mo ago

Yes. It works locally

Brody•17mo ago

what directory are you creating these subdirectories in

ananthankichuOP•17mo ago

current_dir = os.getcwd() output_dir = "store/random_string" full_output_dir = os.path.join(current_dir, output_dir) if not os.path.exists(full_output_dir): print('PATH DOESNOT EXISTS- CREATING') os.makedirs(full_output_dir) else: print('PATH EXISTS CONTINUING') There is a directory named "store" in the project. I am trying to create a directory inside the "store" directory. Above is the code snippet

Brody•17mo ago

I see two print statements there, and neither of them print on railway?

ananthankichuOP•17mo ago

print('PATH DOESNOT EXISTS- CREATING') This is getting printed. But the directory is not getting created

Brody•17mo ago

check for errors from os.makedirs

ananthankichuOP•17mo ago

try: os.makedirs(full_output_dir, exist_ok=False) print('NO ERRORS') except Exception as e: print(e) I tried this. There are no errors.

Brody•17mo ago

okay and what makes you think the directory wasn't created

ananthankichuOP•17mo ago

There is another function that uses the newly created directory. When I run that function, I am getting error directory doesn't exist. For confirming it, I made a simple view to check the contents of the directory, Below is the code. def testDirView(request): dir = request.GET.get('dir') directories = [name for name in os.listdir(dir)] print('DIR--->> ',directories) return HttpResponse("DONE") This doesn't print the newly created directory.

Brody•17mo ago

okay I will do some tests tomorrow as it's very late for me right now

ananthankichuOP•17mo ago

ok. Thanks. 🙂

Brody•17mo ago

you keep debugging this too!

ananthankichuOP•17mo ago

sure.

Brody•17mo ago

im sorry i couldn't reproduce your issue

Brody•17mo ago

this was the code i used

import os

current_dir = os.getcwd()

output_dir = "store/random_string"

full_output_dir = os.path.join(current_dir, output_dir)

if not os.path.exists(full_output_dir):
    print("path does not exist, creating path")
    try:
        os.makedirs(full_output_dir, exist_ok=False)
        print("no errors creating the path")
    except Exception as err:
        print("error crating path: ", err)
else:
    print("path exists, continuing")

if not os.path.exists(full_output_dir):
    print("path does not exist")
else:
    print("path exists")

import os

current_dir = os.getcwd()

output_dir = "store/random_string"

full_output_dir = os.path.join(current_dir, output_dir)

if not os.path.exists(full_output_dir):
    print("path does not exist, creating path")
    try:
        os.makedirs(full_output_dir, exist_ok=False)
        print("no errors creating the path")
    except Exception as err:
        print("error crating path: ", err)
else:
    print("path exists, continuing")

if not os.path.exists(full_output_dir):
    print("path does not exist")
else:
    print("path exists")

what directory did you set in this request

ananthankichuOP•17mo ago

Hey, I found the issue. It was because I was running two services (celery and web ). I was trying to create a new directory inside the celery service. I changed the logic and tried to create the directory in web service and it worked . I don't know why this issue was happening. I tried to find the reason, but I couldn't.

Brody•17mo ago

happy you could solve it

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