Re: OT: dynamically generated files?

[Don Arbow]

On Jun 22, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Scott Finnie wrote: Realise this isn't django specific, would however appreciate advice. I have a django app that dynamically generates image files based on user  queries.  During dev I use the same filename every time (so it gets  overwritten for each request) however that won't do for production. My proposed solution is to insert the session id into the filename  (since, for a given session, there can only be one image used at any  given time).  That should work but will need a cleanup job to clear the  temp dir periodically. So I'm wondering, is there another / preferred / recommended way to do this? For creating temporary files, have a look at the tempfile module in python, specifically, the mkstemp function. You can specify where the file is created and a prefix/suffix for the name. The module also defines the TemporaryFile function, which deletes the temp file when it is closed. http://www.python.org/doc/2.4/lib/module-tempfile.html Don --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---