def _create_folder(local_folder, parent_folder_id):
new_folder = session.communicator.create_folder(<EOL>session.token, os.path.basename(local_folder), parent_folder_id)<EOL>return new_folder['<STR_LIT>']<EOL>
Function for creating a remote folder and returning the id. This should be
a building block for user-level functions.

:param local_folder: full path to a local folder
:type local_folder: string
:param parent_folder_id: id of parent folder on the Midas Server instance,
    where the new folder will be added
:type parent_folder_id: int | long
:returns: id of the remote folder that was created
:rtype: int | long