[Tutor] Creating unique output log files

[Alexandre Ratti]

Hi Stuart,


At 12:00 17/05/2002 -0400, tutor-request@python.org wrote:
>From: stuart_clemons@us.ibm.com
>Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 10:50:35 -0400
>Subject: [Tutor] Creating unique output log files

>Any hints on how I can automatically create a unique output log everytime 
>it's run.   Making the date a part of the output log file name seems to 
>make a lot of sense, but I don't know how to do it.  Something like 
>0517am.out & 0517pm.out.

Try this:

import time
timeStamp = time.gmtime(time.time())
formatString = "%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S"
print "%s.out" % time.strftime(formatString, timeStamp)
 >>> 2002-05-17-17-02-32.out

You could use a similar value as a file name. See the library section for 
the "time" module for more info.


Cheers.

Alexandre