Creating a folder and setting as workspace using ArcPy?

Question

I am trying to create a folder and setting that as the workspace for the rest of the script. However I am not sure why it isn't working.

When I hard wire in a location, the env.workspace can be set to that variable. See script below:

import arcpy, datetime
today = datetime.date.today()
date = today.strftime("%Y%m%d_%B_%Y")
folder = r"path\to\folder\\"
arcpy.env.workspace = folder

However when I create a folder using CreateFolder tool, and set that variable as the env.workspace, I keep getting an error. The script doesn't run.

import arcpy, datetime
today = datetime.date.today()
date = today.strftime("%Y%m%d_%B_%Y")
location = r"path\to\location\\"
folder = arcpy.CreateFolder_management(location, date)
arcpy.env.workspace = folder

• Hasan Mustafa: Since this is purely a python question with no GIS components, you should ask it on stackoverflow.
• MacroZED: Well its about setting the env,workspace within Arc.
• Hasan Mustafa: Yeah, I didn't notice. You should add the 'arcpy' tag to your question.
• Barrett: Hasan, I think you can find these types of questions all over GIS.SE. A lot of times the answer is a problem with the code and not with GIS component of the code. However, people still ask and answer here for these types of questions. I can see it going both ways.
• MacroZED: Ive changed the tag to arcpy to avoid confusion.

Answer 1

replace

folder = arcpy.CreateFolder_management(location, date)

with

folder = str(arcpy.CreateFolder_management(location, date)) + "\\"

• MacroZED: Unfortunately that didn't work. It fails later down the code when trying to locate files within "folder".
• cartoscience: updated to include backslash at end of pathname

Answer 2

I managed to get it to work with the following, by adding backslashes to the variable "folder".

#Import module
import arcpy, datetime
#Set the date for automatic folder creation
today = datetime.date.today()
date = today.strftime("%Y%m%d_%B_%Y")
#Create and set the workspace
location = r"C:\Test\August"
newfolder = arcpy.CreateFolder_management(location, date)
print "Workspace created"
#Create a variable called folder to be the workspace
folder = str(str(newfolder) + "\\")
arcpy.env.workspace = folder
print folder
C:\Test\August20160804円_August_2016\