On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Jason Friedman <jsf80...@gmail.com> wrote: > I appreciate > how Python makes my job easier by doing much of my work for me. A > colleague yesterday asked how I guaranteed my temporary file names > would not collide with another file, and my answer was I don't have to > worry about it, someone else figured it out with the tempfile module.
Though in that case, Python isn't actually the one doing most of the work - the tempfile module handballs responsibility to the lower-level functions. But yes, there's HEAPS that you don't have to worry about, because it's Someone Else's Problem. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list