[Python-Dev] Rationale for NamedTemporaryFile? (original) (raw)

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Sun Mar 18 09:13:15 CET 2007

Greg Ewing schrieb:

I've just discovered the hard way that NamedTemporaryFile automatically deletes the file when you close it. That doesn't seem very useful to me, since surely the reason you're using NamedTemporaryFile instead of TemporaryFile is that you want to do something else with it afterwards? What's the rationale for this behaviour?

It now (2.6) has a keyword argument for not closing the file.

Georg

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