how to create multiple subfolders in pyhton using subprocess?

CST

6/3/23, 10:43 AM

On my ubuntu 20.04 when I use

mkdir -p /home/parent/{child1,child2}

in my terminal I get a folder parent with 2 subfolders child1 and child2.

parent
parent/child1
parent/child2

However, when I try to run this in a python script using

bashCommand = "mkdir -p /home/parent/{child1,child2}"
#print(bashCommand)
subprocess.run(bashCommand.split(), capture_output=True)

I end up having a parent folder and one child folder named {child1,child2}.

parent
parent/{child1,child2}

How can I fix this?

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bash

python3

mkdir

20.04

pLumo

6/3/23, 10:50 AM

Don't use `subprocess`, but `os.mkdir()` or `os.makedirs()`.

muru

6/3/23, 10:56 AM

I recommend that too, but for the general case: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22659579/curly-braces-in-python-popen

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