> On Oct 22, 2018, at 8:30 PM, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:57 AM Mats Wichmann <m...@wichmann.us> wrote: >> >> On 10/22/18 8:24 AM, boB Stepp wrote: >>> Forwarding to the Tutor list. Herr Maier offers a good idea that >>> would take away much of a remaining issue -- the name "Temporary". I >>> need to look into the functools library to see what "partial" does. >> >> >> if you really don't care what the file is called because you will >> maintain a map which leads you to the filename, you might as well use a >> uuid. > > Wouldn't I have to write a check to ensure such a named file (However > unlikely that would be.) did not exist before creating it? And if > yes, would not that get into the same potential security issue that > cause tempfile.mktemp() to be deprecated? >
The whole point of UUIDs is to make the probability of a UUID collision so infinitesimally small as to make that hypothetical collision simply not worth worrying about, even when they are created on different systems. Since a big chunk of a UUID is a high precision time stamp, any UUIDs created on a single system are pretty much guaranteed to be unique. Bill > -- > boB > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
