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Thu Mar 12 22:54:04 CET 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/087143.html

>>> The sync is necessary to ensure that the data is written to the disk
>>> before the old file overwrites the new filename.
>> You still wouldn't use the tempfile module in that case. Instead, you
>> would create a regular file, with the name base on the name of the
>> important file.
>>
> Uhm... why?

Because it's much easier not to use the tempfile module, than to use it,
and because the main purpose of the tempfile module is irrelevant to
the specific application; the main purpose being the ability to
auto-delete the file when it gets closed.

Regards,
Martin

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