This is a workaround for https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1367590 It works by creating a path that django_scss will attempt to create later if it doesn’t exist. The django_pyscss code fails intermittantly because of concurrency issues. This code ignores the exception and if it was anything other than the concurrency issue django_pyscss will discover the problem later.
TODO (doug-fish): remove this workaround once fix for https://github.com/fusionbox/django-pyscss/issues/23 is picked up.