How can I safely create a nested directory?

Question

What is the most elegant way to check if the directory a file is going to be written to exists, and if not, create the directory using Python? Here is what I tried:

Answer 1

You can use mkpath

# Create a directory and any missing ancestor directories. 
# If the directory already exists, do nothing.

from distutils.dir_util import mkpath
mkpath("test")    

Note that it will create the ancestor directories as well.

It works for Python 2 and 3.