[Python-Dev] Standard Library Tour Part II (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Sun May 30 23:44:11 EDT 2004

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

[??? Should the tempfile module be in the tour ???]

I would say yes - it shouldn't be that hard to explain, and is far better than creating your own method of making temporary files.

The two most likely traps it avoids are problems with access permissions on the current directory, as well as problems with the temporary files conflicting when multiple versions of your Python program are run simultaneously (I probably would have been burnt by those at some point, but found tempfile first)

Cheers, Nick.

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