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Re: How to store a variable when a script is executing for next time execution?

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Date 2013-06-07 01:37 +1000
Subject Re: How to store a variable when a script is executing for next time execution?
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
> If you're planning on having the files densely populated (meaning no gaps in
> the numbering), then you could use a binary search to find the last one.
> Standard algorithm would converge with 10 existence checks if you have a
> limit of 1000 files.

Or, if you can dedicate a directory to those files, you could go even simpler:

dataFile = open('filename0.0.%d.json'%len(os.listdir()), 'w')

The number of files currently existing equals the number of the next file.

ChrisA

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How to store a variable when a script is executing for next time execution? Avnesh Shakya <avnesh.nitk@gmail.com> - 2013-06-06 03:50 -0700
  Re: How to store a variable when a script is executing for next time execution? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-06-06 21:19 +1000
  Re: How to store a variable when a script is executing for next time execution? Avnesh Shakya <avnesh.nitk@gmail.com> - 2013-06-06 17:36 +0530
  Re: How to store a variable when a script is executing for next time execution? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-06-06 08:14 -0400
  Re: How to store a variable when a script is executing for next time execution? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-06-06 15:46 +0300
  Re: How to store a variable when a script is executing for next time execution? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-07 01:37 +1000
  Re: How to store a variable when a script is executing for next time execution? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-06-06 16:54 +0100
  Re: How to store a variable when a script is executing for next time execution? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-07 01:56 +1000

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