Is this the best way to get unique version of filename w/ Python?

Question

Still \'diving in\' to Python, and want to make sure I\'m not overlooking something. I wrote a script that extracts files from several zip files, and saves the extracted files t

Answer 1

if you don't care about readability, uuid.uuid4() is your friend.

import uuid

def unique_filename(prefix=None, suffix=None):
    fn = []
    if prefix: fn.extend([prefix, '-'])
    fn.append(str(uuid.uuid4()))
    if suffix: fn.extend(['.', suffix.lstrip('.')])
    return ''.join(fn)