diff --git a/trustgraph-cli/trustgraph/cli/load_sample_documents.py b/trustgraph-cli/trustgraph/cli/load_sample_documents.py
index 0398864c..f5b493a8 100644
--- a/trustgraph-cli/trustgraph/cli/load_sample_documents.py
+++ b/trustgraph-cli/trustgraph/cli/load_sample_documents.py
@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ Loads a PDF document into the library
 
 import argparse
 import os
-import uuid
 import datetime
 import requests
+from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
+from urllib3.response import HTTPResponse
 
 from trustgraph.api import Api
 from trustgraph.api.types import hash, Uri, Literal, Triple
@@ -16,9 +17,6 @@ default_token = os.getenv("TRUSTGRAPH_TOKEN", None)
 default_workspace = os.getenv("TRUSTGRAPH_WORKSPACE", "default")
 
 
-from requests.adapters import HTTPAdapter
-from urllib3.response import HTTPResponse
-
 class FileAdapter(HTTPAdapter):
     def send(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
         resp = HTTPResponse(body=open(request.url[7:], 'rb'), status=200, preload_content=False)
@@ -28,10 +26,7 @@ session = requests.session()
 
 session.mount('file://', FileAdapter())
 
-try:
-    os.mkdir("doc-cache")
-except:
-    pass
+os.makedirs("doc-cache", exist_ok=True)
 
 documents = [
 
@@ -743,4 +738,4 @@ def main():
         raise e
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
\ No newline at end of file
+    main()