code: def _create_folder(local_folder, parent_folder_id):
      
      new_folder = session.communicator.create_folder(
          session.token, os.path.basename(local_folder), parent_folder_id)
      return new_folder['folder_id']
docs: Function for creating a remote folder and returning the id. This should be
      a building block for user-level functions.
  
      :param local_folder: full path to a local folder
      :type local_folder: string
      :param parent_folder_id: id of parent folder on the Midas Server instance,
          where the new folder will be added
      :type parent_folder_id: int | long
      :returns: id of the remote folder that was created
      :rtype: int | long