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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(self, segment):
 """A best-effort attempt to create directories. Warnings are issued to the user if those directories could not created or if they don't exist. The caller should only call this function if the user requested prefetching (i.e. concurrency) to avoid spurious warnings. """


        def lackadaisical_mkdir(place):
            ok = False

            place = path.realpath(place)

            try:
                os.makedirs(place, 0o700)
                ok = True
            except EnvironmentError as e:
                if e.errno == errno.EEXIST:
                    # Has already been created: this is the most
                    # common situation, and is fine.
                    ok = True
                else:
                    logger.warning(
                        msg='could not create prefetch directory',
                        detail=('Prefetch directory creation target: {0}, {1}'
                                .format(place, e.strerror)))

            return ok

        ok = True

        for d in [self.prefetched_dir, self.running]:
            ok &= lackadaisical_mkdir(d)

        lackadaisical_mkdir(self.seg_dir(segment))