Hi, Here's what's happening:
Python 2.5 (r25:51908, Sep 19 2006, 09:52:17) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. | >>> import os | >>> os.tmpfile() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied but tempfile.mkstemp() works: >>> import tempfile >>> tempfile.mkstemp() (3, 'c:\\docume~1\\sjm\\locals~1\\temp\\tmpnfuk9i') This is Windows XP Pro SP2. The user with the problem is _not_ an administrator. It works OK when logged on as an administrator. I am using the mode which enables having multiple users logged on and switching between them. The problem happens with Pythons back to 2.2. Python 2.1 on Windows doesn't seem to have a tmpfile() function in the os module. On a Windows 2000 SP4 box, with a "Power User" [part way between administrator and vanilla user] Python 2.3.5 os.tmpfile() works OK. AFAICT Win XP doesn't have this intermediate level of user. Questions: 1. Before I start checking what permissions who has to do what to which, what directory is it likely to be trying to open the temp file in? C:\WINDOWS\TEMP....? 2. What is the general advice about whether to use os.tmpfile() or the functions in the tempfile module? I'm presuming that as os.tmpfile() is ultimately calling tmpfile() in the C stdio library, nobody would have gone to the effort of making the tempfile module just to reproduce stdio functionality, but AFAICT there's no guidance in the docs. Maybe I should be talking to the authors of the package that is using os.tmpfile() :-) TIA for any clues, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
