Re: Make a unique filesystem path, without creating the file

From	Roel Schroeven <roel@roelschroeven.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Make a unique filesystem path, without creating the file
Date	2016-02-15 23:22 +0100
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Ben Finney schreef op 2016-02-14 22:46:
> How should a program generate a unique filesystem path and *not* create
> the filesystem entry?
 > ...
> What standard library function should I be using to generate
> ‘tempfile.mktemp’-like unique paths, and *not* ever create a real file
> by that path?

Use uuid.uuid1()?

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Re: Make a unique filesystem path, without creating the file Roel Schroeven <roel@roelschroeven.net> - 2016-02-15 23:22 +0100

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