From d67a7bc3be2c31e3b4870b7d236cb868e7939aec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Black <steveb@stevenblack.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 23:44:23 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Create the output folder if it doesn't pre-exist.

---
 updateHostsFile.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/updateHostsFile.py b/updateHostsFile.py
index 903966ce9..32dcb5969 100644
--- a/updateHostsFile.py
+++ b/updateHostsFile.py
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ def removeDupsAndExcl(mergeFile):
         os.makedirs(outputPath)
 
     # Another mode is required to read and write the file in Python 3
-    finalFile = open(os.path.join(outputPath, 'hosts'), 'r+b')
+    finalFile = open(os.path.join(outputPath, 'hosts'), 'w+')
     mergeFile.seek(0) # reset file pointer
 
     hostnames = set()