I don't remember the number of times I needed to do this.

This is extremely useful, especially when you want to algorithmically generate a folder structure in Python.

Here is the code

import os
if not os.path.exists('my_folder'):
    os.makedirs('my_folder')

Here you are! You now know how to create a folder if it doesn't exist in Python.

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