> No need, to turn the number back to a path anymore, just the path to a
> number, to identify the specific .html page
>
> Can this be done?
Guaranteed to be unique? Not even remotely possible. Even with a lookup table
approach (which defeats your purpose of not storing the path) with 4 digits
you're looking at a maximum 10000 unique file paths before your system
duplicates numbers. And that's the best-case scenario. Anything else would be
worse.
Not guaranteed to be unique? Easy. Just take then previously given example of
pin = int( htmlpage.encode("hex"), 16 ) and mod it to your limit, to make:
pin = int( htmlpage.encode("hex"), 16 ) % 10000
It'll give you your number, but there are no guarantees of uniqueness. You're
looking at more blind random luck using that.
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
