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

How about

def ensure_unique_filename(orig_file_path):    
    from time import time
    import os

    if os.path.lexists(orig_file_path):
        name, ext = os.path.splitext(orig_file_path)
        orig_file_path = name + str(time()).replace('.', '') + ext

    return orig_file_path

time() returns current time in milliseconds. combined with original filename, it's fairly unique even in complex multithreaded cases.