On 21/10/18 07:13, boB Stepp wrote: > 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.
The traditional approach to such scenarios (eg. for log files) is to append the datetime. If that is not enough granularity you can additionally append a numeric suffix that applies only during a single session(ie a global variable) and is only applied when the datetimes are identical - very rare. > tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) would solve this problem Can't help there, I've never used it. :-) -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor