Negation in Python

The negation operator in Python is not. Therefore just replace your ! with not. For your example, do this: if not os.path.exists(“/usr/share/sounds/blues”) : proc = subprocess.Popen([“mkdir”, “/usr/share/sounds/blues”]) proc.wait() For your specific example (as Neil said in the comments), you don’t have to use the subprocess module, you can simply use os.mkdir() to get the result … Read more