Make a unique filesystem path, without creating the file

[Mark Lawrence]

On 23/02/2016 08:22, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>> https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2015-September/036333.html
>> then http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/python/dev/1223780
>
> Thanks.  It would be nice if those were gatewayed to usenet like this
> group is.  I can't bring myself to subscribe to mailing lists.

Piece of cake using even a semi-decent email client (I use Thunderbird 
on Windows) via gmane.  It provides access to hundreds of Python mailing 
lists, blogs and even updates to the Activestate recipes :)

>
>>> There are a few other choices in the PEP whose benefit is unclear to me,
>>> but they aren't harmful, and I guess the decisions have already been
>>> made.
>> The PEP status is draft so is subject to change.
>
> Well they might be changeable but it sounds like there's a level of
> consensus by now, that wouldn't be helped by more bikeshedding over
> relatively minor stuff.  I might write up some further comments and post
> them here
>

You might as well, can't do any harm and somebody might pick up on 
something.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence