Hi, I have a function that only accepts filenames, rather than file-like objects (because its a wrapper around a C++ function, I think).
I want to feed some potentially large "files" into this function, but they are coming in as streams (eg from a url) and so are only represented in my code as file-like objects. Can someone give me some pointers as to how I might create some sort of blocking device file or named pipe or something that will give this stream a filename without having to actually write the data to disk and then read it back in before deleting it? I've sort of tried the FIFO thing, but I think I'm getting caught by its blocking behaviour on open so as soon as I try to open the named pipe (whether for reading or writing) my script just hangs. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers Iain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
