I'm building a pipeline involving a number of shell tools. In each case, I create a temporary file using tempfile.mkstmp() and invoke a command ("cmd < /tmp/tmpfile") on it using subprocess.Popen.
At the end of each section, I call close() on the file handles and use os.remove() to delete them. Even so I build up file descriptors that eventually give me the "too many files" error message. Am I missing something here? Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list