On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Anthony Papillion <anth...@cajuntechie.org> wrote: > > On 02/09/2016 07:47 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Anthony Papillion <anth...@cajuntechie.org> writes: > > > >> On 02/09/2016 07:26 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: > >>> I am using datetime.now() to create a unique version of a filename. > >>> […] > >> > >> Found the solution in strftime(). Exactly what I was looking for. > > > > For the task of making a unique filename, you should also consider the > > ‘tempfile’ module in the standard library. > > I looked at tempfile. Unfortunately, the filename has to be both > 'unique' and 'identifiable' to the original. So if I am using mydog.jpg > as the source and I am adding something unique to it, it has to still > have mydog.jpg in the filename. Tempfile, I think, doesn't allow an easy > way to do that. So I'm just adding the exact date and time which is > unique enough for my purposes.
Actually, it doe (untested, but I've used the feature in projects): tempfile.TemporaryFile(prefix="mydog", suffix=".jpg") Chris -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
