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Don't ignore failure to create directory #1796

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8 changes: 5 additions & 3 deletions src/docs/show-help-files/build-dummy-ini-files.py
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# Trivial script to scrape section names from source .rst files and
# generate dummy show_help-style text files. We only use this script
# a) if the show_help files are not availabale (i.e., in a git clone),
# a) if the show_help files are not available (i.e., in a git clone),
# and b) if Sphinx is not available.
#
# We generate these show_help files (as opposed to generating a run
# time error when the show_help file is unavailable) just so that it's
# 100% obvious that you're not getting proper help files because you
# did not have Sphinx available.

# Intentially use a minimal set of Python modules (to decrease any
# Intentionally use a minimal set of Python modules (to decrease any
# needed dependencies).

import re
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try:
os.makedirs(full_outdir, exists_ok=True)
except Exception:
pass
# cannot create the directory, so just leave it alone
# we did our best, they'll just get a runtime error
return

# Write the output file
with open(outfile, 'w') as fp:
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