Python's os.makedirs doesn't understand "~" in my path

Question

I have a little problem with ~ in my paths.

This code example creates some directories called "~/some_dir" and do not understand that I wanted to create some_dir in my home directory.

my_dir = "~/some_dir"
if not os.path.exists(my_dir):
    os.makedirs(my_dir)

Note this is on a Linux-based system.

Answer 1

You need to expand the tilde manually:

my_dir = os.path.expanduser('~/some_dir')