Create different .htm file for each loop

Question

This is the first time, I am posting a question. Please forgive me if I do something incorrect.

I am trying to create a python-selenium script to get the source code of MULTIPLE web pages.

I am running the script in the following manner (via command line on windows 7)

python program.py < input.txt > output.htm

This does creates the result, however since I am using a loop function it is appending the same file with all the results.

Is there a way, I can create a NEW FILE FOR EACH result/print

Thanks in advance.

Here is my code,

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time
from selenium.webdriver.common.action_chains import ActionChains

path_to_chromedriver = '/Users/office/Desktop/chromedriver' # change path as needed
browser = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = path_to_chromedriver)
while(True):
url = raw_input("")
url2 = raw_input("")
browser.get(url)
time.sleep(10)
browser.get(url2)
time.sleep(10)

element_to_hover_over = browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="personSummaryTable"]/tbody/tr/td[2]/div[5]/div/span[1]/a')
hover = ActionChains(browser).move_to_element(element_to_hover_over)
hover.perform()
time.sleep(5)
stuff = browser.page_source.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
print stuff

Jan's idea worked great,

All it needed was to let python decide a filename, Thanks Jan

import datetime
suffix = ".html"
basename = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%y%m%d_%H%M%S")
fname = "_".join([basename, suffix]) # e.g. 'mylogfile_120508_171442'
print fname
with open(fname, "w") as f:
    f.write(stuff)

Answer 1

Welcome at SO

You have two options

Let Python code decide on name of output file

This will likely be based on current time, e.g.

import time
# here get somehow your page content
page_content = ?????
prefix = "outut-"
suffix = ".html"
fname = "{prefix}{now:d}{suffix}".format(now=time.time())
print fname
with open(fname, "w") as f:
    f.write(page_content)

Let your external loop (out of Python) create the file name

This file name can be e.g. on Linux created by some form of date command.