Method find_profile_dir

IPython/core/profiledir.py:231–244

Find/create a profile dir and return its ProfileDir. This will create the profile directory if it doesn't exist. Parameters ---------- profile_dir : unicode or str The path of the profile directory.

(cls, profile_dir, config=None)

    @classmethod
    def find_profile_dir(cls, profile_dir, config=None):
        """Find/create a profile dir and return its ProfileDir.

        This will create the profile directory if it doesn't exist.

        Parameters
        ----------
        profile_dir : unicode or str
            The path of the profile directory.
        """
        profile_dir = expand_path(profile_dir)
        if not os.path.isdir(profile_dir):
            raise ProfileDirError('Profile directory not found: %s' % profile_dir)
        return cls(location=profile_dir, config=config)