On 02/09/2016 07:47 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > Anthony Papillion <anth...@cajuntechie.org> writes: > >> On 02/09/2016 07:26 PM, Anthony Papillion wrote: >>> I am using datetime.now() to create a unique version of a filename. >>> […] >> >> Found the solution in strftime(). Exactly what I was looking for. > > For the task of making a unique filename, you should also consider the > ‘tempfile’ module in the standard library.
I looked at tempfile. Unfortunately, the filename has to be both 'unique' and 'identifiable' to the original. So if I am using mydog.jpg as the source and I am adding something unique to it, it has to still have mydog.jpg in the filename. Tempfile, I think, doesn't allow an easy way to do that. So I'm just adding the exact date and time which is unique enough for my purposes. Thanks for the pointer though. Anthony -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
