On 5/7/13, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote: > Currently, I keep Last.fm artist data caches to avoid unnecessary API calls > and have been naming the files using the artist name. However, > artist names can have characters that are not allowed in file names for most > file systems (e.g., C/A/T has forward slashes). Are there any > recommended strategies for naming such files while avoiding conflicts (I > wouldn't want to run into problems for an artist named C-A-T or > CAT, for example)? I'd like to make the files easily identifiable, and there > really are no limits on what characters can be in an artist name.
You might consider: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/backshift/trunk/escape_mod.py http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/backshift/trunk/test-escape_mod It doubles the length of the string, but it produces safe, easily readable escaped strings - which tends to make debugging easier. It requires a couple of other modules (easily obtained from the same SVN repo) though. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
