[Tutor] Can tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) be used to create *permanent* uniquely named files?

[Peter Otten]

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.