Use case: I want to allow a user of my Solitaire Scorekeeper program to be able to give any name he wants to each game of solitaire he wishes to record. My thought for permanent storage of each game's parameters is to use a dictionary to map the user-chosen game names to a unique json filename. This way I hope no shenanigans can occur with weird characters/non-printing characters.
My initial thought was to just have a sequence of game names with incrementing numerical suffixes: game_0, game_1, ... , game_n. But this would require the program to keep track of what the next available numerical suffix is. Additionally, if a user chooses to delete a game, then there would be a gap in the numerical sequence of the game filenames. I find such a gap aesthetically displeasing and would probably go to additional efforts to reuse such deleted filenames, so there would be no such "gaps". So I am now wondering if using tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) would solve this problem nicely? As I am not very familiar with this library, are there any unforeseen issues I should be made aware of? Would this work equally well on all operating systems? TIA! -- boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
