Grant Edwards wrote: >> IOW, it's the same approach as on Unix. > > Not really. Under Unix you can safely create a temp file with > a name that can be used to open the file.
Unless I'm missing something, it's not possible to do this in a safe way in the shared temp directory; you can do that only by creating a file in a directory that's under full control of your user. And *that* approach works on Windows as well, of course. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
