From 9fae8d0ae16bde327d3a86dc7651f1976f8e6856 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Bussonnier <bussonniermatthias@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 11:30:33 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #13334: Fix race condition in
 paths.get_ipython_dirs()

---
 IPython/paths.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/IPython/paths.py b/IPython/paths.py
index e7f8aee3070..e19269058af 100644
--- a/IPython/paths.py
+++ b/IPython/paths.py
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ def get_ipython_dir() -> str:
                     " using a temp directory.".format(parent))
             ipdir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
         else:
-            os.makedirs(ipdir)
+            os.makedirs(ipdir, exist_ok=True)
     assert isinstance(ipdir, str), "all path manipulation should be str(unicode), but are not."
     return ipdir