boB Stepp wrote: > 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?
I think this is cool thinking outside of the box. I would not have "dared" this, but now you suggest it I cannot see anything wrong with your approach. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
