Greg Ewing wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> IMO mkstemp() is a major pain because you have to use raw file
>> descriptors on the return value. I'd much rather recommend
>> [Named]TemporaryFile which return streams.
>
> The problem with NamedTemporaryFile is that it deletes
> the file as soon as you close it, which makes the
> named-ness of it rather useless, as far as I can see.
> If you don't want that to happen, you have to use
> mkstemp.
That much has been fixed in 2.6 - you can now just pass "delete=False"
to the NamedTemporaryFile constructor to stop it doing that.
Cheers,
Nick.
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