[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can anyone elaborate on how 'os.tmpfile()' works? I was thinking it would > create some sort of temporary file I could quickly add text too and then when > I was finished would automatically get rid of it. Here's my questions: ... > Can you actually 'write' to this file? And if so, do you have to 'close()' > it when you're done with it? Thanks for your help with this... I'm still > learning Python and haven't been able to find out much about this in the > documentation or on-line.
It's a file. You read strings from it and write strings to it. It isn't a string itself. Given that what you're trying to do doesn't make any sense, it's hard to know where to begin to identify what's confusing you. -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 18 N 121 57 W && AIM, Y!M erikmaxfrancis And though the odds say improbable / What do they know -- Stevie Wonder -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list