On 2016-02-15, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Dan Sommers <d...@tombstonezero.net> writes: > >> On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 11:08:52 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: >> >> > I am unconcerned with whether there is a real filesystem entry of >> > that name; the goal entails having no filesystem activity for this. >> > I want a valid unique filesystem path, without touching the >> > filesystem. >> >> That's an odd use case. > > It's very common to want filesystem paths divorced from accessing a > filesystem entry.
If the filesystem paths are not associated with a filesystem, what do you mean by "unique"? You want to make sure that path <whatever> which doesn't exist in some filesystem is different from all other paths that don't exist in some filesystem? > For example: test paths in a unit test. Filesystem access is orders > of magnitude slower than accessing fake files in memory only, How is "fake files in memory" not a filesystem? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! The Korean War must at have been fun. gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list