Creating a folder and setting as workspace using ArcPy?

Question

I am trying to create a folder and setting that as the workspace for the rest of the script. However I am not sure why it isn't working.

When I hard wire in a location, the env.workspace can be set to that variable. See script below:

import arcpy, datetime

today = datetime.date.today()
date = today.strftime("%Y%m%d_%B_%Y")

folder = r"path\to\folder\\"
arcpy.env.workspace = folder

However when I create a folder using CreateFolder tool, and set that variable as the env.workspace, I keep getting an error. The script doesn't run.

import arcpy, datetime

today = datetime.date.today()
date = today.strftime("%Y%m%d_%B_%Y")

location = r"path\to\location\\"
folder = arcpy.CreateFolder_management(location, date)

arcpy.env.workspace = folder

Answer 1

replace

folder = arcpy.CreateFolder_management(location, date)

with

folder = str(arcpy.CreateFolder_management(location, date)) + "\\"

Answer 2

I managed to get it to work with the following, by adding backslashes to the variable "folder".

#Import module
import arcpy, datetime

#Set the date for automatic folder creation
today = datetime.date.today()
date = today.strftime("%Y%m%d_%B_%Y")

#Create and set the workspace
location = r"C:\Test\August"
newfolder = arcpy.CreateFolder_management(location, date)
print "Workspace created"

#Create a variable called folder to be the workspace
folder = str(str(newfolder) + "\\")
arcpy.env.workspace = folder
print folder
C:\Test\August\20160804_August_2016\