On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote: > geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> writes: >> # adds random junk to the filename- should make it hard to guess >> rrr = os.urandom(16) >> fname += base64.b64encode(rrr) > > Don't use b64 output in a filename -- it can have slashes in it! :-( > > Simplest is to use old fashioned hexadeimal for stuff like that, unless > the number of chars is a significant problem. Go for a more complicated > encoding if you must.
Eeesh, that completely slipped my mind. Thanks for pointing it out. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
