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Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file

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On 2014-03-12 13:29, zoom wrote:
> 2. Alternatively, a unique string could be generated to assure that
> no same file exists. I can see one approach to this is to include
> date and time in the file name. But this seems to me a bit clumsy,
> and is not unique, i.e. it could happen (at least in theory) that
> two processes finish in the same second.

Python offers a "tempfile" module that gives this (and a whole lot
more) to you out of the box.

-tkc

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Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file zoom <zoom@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-12 13:29 +0100
  Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-03-12 07:37 -0500
  Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-03-12 08:33 -0500
  Re:Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-03-12 14:22 -0400
  Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-03-12 12:38 -0700
  Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-03-13 09:19 +1100
  Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-12 23:04 +0000
  Re: Save to a file, but avoid overwriting an existing file Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-03-13 11:22 +1100

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