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

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Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> writes:

> What does unpredictable mean in this context? Maybe I'm reading too
> much into that...

I think you may be, yes. The request in this thread requires making
direct use of the “generate a new valid temporary fielsystem path”
functionality already implemented in ‘tempfile’.

Implementations of that functionality outside of ‘tempfile’ are a fun
exercise, but miss the point of this thread.

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Re: Make a unique filesystem path, without creating the file Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-02-23 11:18 +1100
  Re: Make a unique filesystem path, without creating the file Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.co.uk> - 2016-02-23 00:53 +0000

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