Taxon database builders do not check paths before running

ImperialCollegeLondon / safedata_validator

Python tools to validate and publish datasets using the safedata metadata format.

https://safedata-validator.readthedocs.io/

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Taxon database builders do not check paths before running #106

Closed davidorme closed 6 months ago

davidorme commented 7 months ago

The GBIF and NCBI database builders assume that the provided outdir exists and that the resulting output file doesn't. It should do this - and do it before downloading all of that data.

Hat-tip: Samuel Lee.