Antony Lee added the comment: The initial idea was to solve #14243 (NamedTemporaryFile would be more useful on Windows if you could close it without deleting) by adding a "closed" keyword argument to the constructor of a subclass, that would set "delete" to False and then close it, e.g.
class NTF(NamedTemporaryFile): def __init__(self, *args, closed=False, **kwargs): if closed: kwargs["delete"] = True super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) if closed: self.close() Actually, there are some not-so-nice interactions with the context-manager protocol though, as the file cannot be reopened. So it's not clear that this is such a good idea. Still, it somewhat confusing that a CamelCase object is not actually a type (especially when TemporaryDirectory is one). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22387> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com