Brought over my workplace scripts

python/make_todays_folder.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# Creates a timestamp for today, and checks if a folder of that description exists, if id doesn't it creates it.
+import os, datetime
+def get_timestamp():
+	today = datetime.date.today()
+	curr_year = str(today.year)[2:4]
+	curr_month = str(today.month)
+	curr_day = str(today.day)
+	if len(curr_month) < 2 :
+		curr_month = '0' + curr_month
+	if len(curr_day) < 2 :
+		curr_day = '0' + curr_day
+		
+	time_stamp = curr_month + curr_day + curr_year
+	return time_stamp
+
+
+tentative_path = os.getcwd() + os.sep + get_timestamp()
+
+
+if not os.path.exists(tentative_path):
+	os.mkdir(tentative_path)
+	print('folder_created at : '+ tentative_path)
+else:
+	print('folder already exists')