On suse 9.3, tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() doesnt work as expected.
(I found a permanent workaround, so I dont ask for help)
I expected to write to a file, and access it thru a shell command.
This code, in a loop:
tf = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
tfName = tf.name
#tf.seek(0) # rewind the file
tf.write(chunk); tf.flush()
print >> sys.stderr, '%s: %s' % (tfName, ['no',
'yes'][os.path.exists(tfName)])
subprocess.Popen(['strings', tfName])
Symptom: the file does not always exist, after the call to
NamedTemporaryFile(). Or at least its not seen by the strings command,
or by os.path.exists.
I guess the bug is pretty much os dependent, or even filesystem
dependent (Im on reiserfs). Maybe the os is buggy, maybe, somehow, the
python interface. Or did I miss something?
Shame, I didnt even try to check for a python bug tracker.
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