{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scrapy/queuelib/issues/9","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scrapy/queuelib/issues/9/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scrapy/queuelib/issues/9/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scrapy/queuelib/issues/9/events","html_url":"https://github.com/scrapy/queuelib/issues/9","id":103466096,"number":9,"title":"In FifoDiskQueue, os.makedirs(path) occassionally fails with WindowsError [Error 5] in Windows","user":{"login":"foresightyj","id":1296736,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1296736?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj","html_url":"https://github.com/foresightyj","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2015-08-27T09:23:02Z","updated_at":"2015-09-01T01:25:36Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Here comes a windows-specific problem again. It is not be a big issue but I think it is worth letting you guys know.\r\n\r\nI posted this question to stackoverflow, [see here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32243199/python-rapidly-creating-and-removing-directories-will-cause-windowserror-error?noredirect=1#comment52371092_32243199)\r\n\r\nFor the moment, I simply changed the line to:\r\n\r\n    try:\r\n        os.makedirs(path)\r\n    except WindowsError as e:\r\n        os.makedirs(path)\r\n\r\nThis will make it a hell of a lot better."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scrapy/queuelib/issues/comments/136545597","html_url":"https://github.com/scrapy/queuelib/issues/9#issuecomment-136545597","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/scrapy/queuelib/issues/9","id":136545597,"user":{"login":"foresightyj","id":1296736,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1296736?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj","html_url":"https://github.com/foresightyj","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/foresightyj/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-09-01T01:25:36Z","updated_at":"2015-09-01T01:25:36Z","body":"Actually another user Tometzky who also answered my question in SO suggested writing a sqlite-version of queue which will probably more reliable in windows.\r\n\r\nSQLite is also battery-included. May I know if you ever considered sqlite?"}}