[Python-Dev] Warn about mktemp once again? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Apr 29 21:09:02 CEST 2008


On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

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.

Why? You can flush it and then all the data is on the disk.

The whole point of [Named]TemporaryFile is to automate the cleanup as well as the creation.

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