Rename file if it exists.

[Stephen Reese]

> This isn't working because the else: is dangling. And I think your logic is
> flawed (I might be wrong of course) because you rename the *existing* file
> instead of giving the new one a new data.
>
> Thus e.g. a link to the file (if it's a webserver) will suddenly deliver a
> different file. I doubt that's what you wanted. And you also can only upload
> one file per *day*. Which doesn't sound good to me. You should disambiguate
> further. And if it's ok to append a date, I suggest you do that always.
>
> So instead, the logic should be something like this:
>
> import datetime
>
> basename = ... # however you get to that
>
> basename = basename + "_" + datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
>
> count = 0
> filename = basename
> while os.path.isfile(filename):
>    filename = basename + "." + count
>    count += 1
>
>
> Diez

The script is working and appending the date to newly uploaded files
but it is not adding the count? Any recommendations? Is the problem
due to os.path.isfile(fn): being just the file name and not the full
path? Thanks.

   # strip leading path from file name to avoid directory traversal attacks
   fn = os.path.basename(fileitem.filename)

   # Include date in filename.
   basename = fn
   basename = basename + "_" + datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
   count = 0
   fn = basename
   while os.path.isfile(fn):
      fn = basename + "." + count
      count += 1

   # Open the file for writing
   f = open('/var/www/apache2-default/' + fn, 'wb', 10000)