title: Loop control when creating directories
body: <p>I asked the question before but it wasn't clear, I ll try this time to make it more clear. i am creating 66 directories, each directory has 19 sub-directories, inside those 19 (all will be named 1-19) sub-directories i am moving three files, two files are arbitrary the third file has data relying on the loop that it is, 4th loop will create a directory 4/ and contain a specific file that has 4 inside, etc.. I am trying to use break, continue statements to control the looping so that only one directory is created but 19 subdirectories are created with the correct data in that file, the name of the name of that file MUST be the same in every directory so I have to move them immediately during the loop so the data inside does not get overwritten , since I have everything in a for loop ranging from 1 to 20, it keeps on trying to create another main directory and it is saying that I already have created, here is the code I have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>base_direct = '{}/'.format(dir_Name) #create the main directories so they are already there,
  
  for x in range(1,20): #loop to create 19 subdirectories 
          if not os.path.exists(str(x)+'/'):os.mkdir(str(x)+'/') #create directories 1/ 2/ 3/ etc..
          else: continue
          shutil.copy(filename, str(x)) #copy file to the directories
          shutil.copy(filename1, str(x)) #copy second file
          frag = open("fragments_procs.in", 'w') #open a new file
          frag.write(str(x) + "\n" + str(20-x)) #file will read 1, 19, since it is on first loop and must be in 1/, second file will read 2 18 must be in 2/ etc...
          shutil.copy("fragments_procs.in", str(x)) #copy the input file into the numbered directory
          shutil.move(str(x), '{}/'.format(dir_Name)) #move 1/ -&gt; /dir_Name
          if not os.path.exists('{}/'.format(dir_Name)+str(x)):shutil.move(str(x), '{}/'.format(dir_Name)) #if dir_name/1/ exists continue to making dir_Name/2/
          else: continue
  
  
  genFiles(dir_Name, filename, filenam1)
  genfiles("Water-Water", "Water1", "Water0")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>code is working and creating Water-Water/, but stops there and says Water-Water/1/ already exists</p>
  
  <p>loop code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>fileName = os.path.splitext(xyzfile)[0]
   for x in range(1,20):
       path = os.path.join(fileName, str(x))
       try:
           os.makedirs(path)
       except OSError as exception:
           if exception.errno != errno.EEXIST:
               raise
  
       shutil.copy(filename, os.path.join(path, filename))
       shutil.copy(filename1, os.path.join(path, filename1))
       with open(os.path.join(path, "fragments_procs.in"), 'w') as frag:
           frag.write(str(x) + "\n" +str(20-x))
               frag.flush()
               frag.close()
  
           subprocess.Popen(["sbatch", "/work/jobfile_fde", fileName,     "2"], cwd=path)
  </code></pre>