Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> writes: > On 02/14/2016 04:08 PM, 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. > > This is impossible. If you don't touch the file system you have no > way to know if the path is unique.
That was unclear. Later in the same thread, I clarified that by “unique” I mean nothing about entries already on the filesystem. Instead it means “unpredictably different each time the function is called”. -- \ “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his | `\ salary depends upon his not understanding it.” —Upton Sinclair, | _o__) 1935 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
