On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:21 PM, <tim.thel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Could you make the program name unique just by combining it with the >> >> repository name in a single string? > > In my case I cannot. But there is a larger reason why I wouldn't do this: > It would mean adding a special character that could not be included in the > repository name, that is, if I were to create a "unique-program-name" string > which was of the format repo+"-"+programName then the repo name could not > have the "-" symbol in it. >
Can you, then, simply substitute a tuple for the string? Instead of comparing program name strings, compare tuples of (repo, program_name) - it should work just fine. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
