Session and Picture naming

[ebgoldstein]

The camera needs some way to record metadata and/or naming of the picture for each session beyond 1,2,3,...

This is a discussion, and i have some ideas..

[jacobstasiewicz]

can you explain a little more how I would do this with a hash map, I am currently reading this website https://medium.com/eonian-technologies/file-name-hashing-creating-a-hashed-directory-structure-eabb03aa4091,

[ebgoldstein]

I'm thinking simpler, where each picture can be 1,2,3,4,..... but the folder is a random string of letters... and users would then write down the string in their notebook as a key to the location/time/experiment...

(this is a half-way step to users being able to input folder names...)

here is my solution:

import random, string

def random_five():
    return ''.join(random.sample(string.ascii_uppercase,5))

FOLDER_NAME = random_five()

from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2823316/generate-a-random-letter-in-python

what do you think @jacobstasiewicz ?

[ebgoldstein]

this works for me, and i implemented it via ... https://github.com/UNCG-DAISY/SandCam/commit/8af79891deb38718c957fa1bc4e7eb2a9b2389f7

https://github.com/UNCG-DAISY/SandCam/blob/8af79891deb38718c957fa1bc4e7eb2a9b2389f7/software/main_tk.py#L58-L67

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