that is exactly what i am looking for, but how would i add this to my
filename???
should i use this:
output_file = open(os.path.join(self.Save_Session.GetValue(),
time.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M')), 'w')
the self.Save_Session.GetValue() is generated by a dirdialog
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:41:35 -0600, C Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, Mar 15, 2005, at 05:01 America/Chicago,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > how am i going to change the filename automaticaly?
> > for example:
> > #every 5 minutes, i am going to create a file based on the
> > data above
> > for i in range(100)
> > output_file = file('c:/output' +.join(i) +'.txt', 'w')
> > #guess this won't work
> > output_file.writelines(lines)
> > output_file.close()
> >
>
> When faced with this problem, one of the tings that I liked to do was
> use a date stamp for the files. The time module has a function called
> strftime which allows you to use a template to create a string from the
> current time. (See the documentation of python module 'time' for more
> details.) e.g.
>
> ###
> >>> import time
> >>> time.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M')
> '200503150934'
> ###
>
> This string can be added to your 'c:/output' rather than a generic
> number like i. Just to be safe you might want to check that the file
> doesn't already exist. The nice thing is that there should be few files
> that have this number added to them so the loop to get a valid name is
> going to succeed quickly.
>
> /c
>
>
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