Hi!
I would like to assure that when writing to a file I do not overwrite an
existing file, but I'm unsure which is the best way to approach to this
problem. As I can see, there are at least two possibilities:
1. I could use fd = os.open("x", os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL)
which will fail - if the file exists. However, I would prefer if the
program would try to save under different name in this case, instead of
discarding all the calculation done until now - but I' not too well with
catching exceptions.
2. Alternatively, a unique string could be generated to assure that no
same file exists. I can see one approach to this is to include date and
time in the file name. But this seems to me a bit clumsy, and is not
unique, i.e. it could happen (at least in theory) that two processes
finish in the same second.
Any suggestions, please?
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