On 22 Feb 2016 22:50, "Ben Finney" <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > 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”.
What does unpredictable mean in this context? Maybe I'm reading too much into that... What's wrong with the example I posted before? -- Oscar -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
