Correct way to create a directory in Python

Can you see the problem with this code? It comes from Ansible, v2.1.1.0.

if not os.path.exists(value):
     os.makedirs(value, 0o700)

It’s quite straightforward. It checks if a directory path exists. If it does not, then it creates the directory path, similar to mkdir -p. What could be wrong?

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