>>> pathlib.Path('H:\\Development\\SmokeDetector-ng\\data\\database.sqlite3').parts[0]
'H:\\'

H:\\

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "create_database.py", line 22, in <module>
    mkdir(path.dirname(database.DB_PATH))
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'Development\\SmokeDetector-ng\\data'

Found models: AutoIgnoredPost, BlacklistedUser, BodyfetcherMaxId, BodyfetcherQueueItem, BodyfetcherQueueTiming, FalsePositive, IgnoredPost, Notification, Report, SchemaMigration, SmokeyMessage, WhitelistedUser, WhyDatum
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "create_database.py", line 22, in <module>
    mkdir(path.dirname(database.DB_PATH))
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'Development\\SmokeDetector-ng\\data'

Found models: AutoIgnoredPost, BlacklistedUser, BodyfetcherMaxId, BodyfetcherQueueItem, BodyfetcherQueueTiming, FalsePositive, IgnoredPost, Notification, Report, SchemaMigration, SmokeyMessage, WhitelistedUser, WhyDatum
Made directory H:\Development\SmokeDetector-ng\data
Created database file H:\Development\SmokeDetector-ng\data\database.sqlite3
Creating tables...

============================= test session starts =============================
platform win32 -- Python 3.6.1, pytest-3.0.7, py-1.4.33, pluggy-0.4.0
rootdir: H:\Development\SmokeDetector-ng, inifile:
plugins: timeout-1.2.0, capturelog-0.7
collected 2 items

test\test_database.py .
test\test_empty.py .

================= 2 passed, 3 pytest-warnings in 1.05 seconds =================