fix for make webdocs

(cherry picked from commit 0e22afef52)

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Ansible Changes By Release
 * updated porting guide with notes for callbacks and config
 * Added backwards compatiblity shim for callbacks that do not inherit from CallbackBase
 * Corrected issue with configuration and multiple ini entries being overwriten even when not set.
+* backported fix for doc generation (plugin_formatter)
 
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docs/bin/plugin_formatter.py

@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ def write_data(text, output_dir, outputname, module=None):
     if output_dir is not None:
         if module:
             outputname = outputname % module
+
+        if not os.path.exists(output_dir):
+            os.makedirs(output_dir)
         fname = os.path.join(output_dir, outputname)
         fname = fname.replace(".py", "")
         with open(fname, 'wb') as f: