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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def create_output_directory(cls, outdir):
 """Tries to create base output directory"""

        cls.PATH = outdir
        try:
            os.mkdir(outdir)
        except FileExistsError:
            pass