On Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at 2:09:59 PM UTC-4, Denis McMahon wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 2015 17:14:15 +0530, Parul Mogra wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > My objective is to create large amount of data files (say a million > > *.json files), using a pre-existing template file (*.json). Each file > > would have a unique name, possibly by incorporating time stamp > > information. The files have to be generated in a folder specified. > > > What is the best strategy to achieve this task, so that the files will > > be generated in the shortest possible time? Say within an hour. > > timestamps are normally unixtime in seconds. There are 3600 seconds in an > hour. You'll have a hard job creating a million files with timestamp > based naming inside of an hour. > > -- > Denis McMahon, denismfmcma...@gmail.com
I would use a combination of both, timestamp and a serial number, such as: 201505201425440000 201505201425440001 201505201425440002 201505201425440003 201505201425450000 201505201425450001 201505201425460000 .. and so on .. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
