Re: Making safe file names

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Date	Tue, 7 May 2013 23:18:40 +0100
Subject	Re: Making safe file names
From	Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com>
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I suggest Base64. b64encode
(http://docs.python.org/2/library/base64.html#base64.b64encode) and
b64decode take an argument which allows you to eliminate the pesky "/"
character. It's reversible and simple.

More suggestions: how about a hash? Or just use IDs from the database?

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@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.
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Re: Making safe file names Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 23:18 +0100

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