I'd like to use the BSDDB module in an app (intended only for GNU/ Linux like OSes).
I don't need the on-disk file to hang around after I've used it. So as per the docs I gave it "None" for the filename. The problem is, it creates the temporary file in /var/tmp. If the user uses separate root and home partitions, the root partition is usually significantly smaller, and the file created will fill up the partition pretty quickly. Besides which, I'd rather have the file placed in the app's own working area under the user's home dir. I'm aware that I can pass in a path of my choosing to use for the DB. But then I'm at the other extreme of resource management — I need to clean it up myself, making sure there's no path out of the code that results in the file getting left behind, including exceptions or signals. Is there an in-between way to use the BSDDB module, where I can name the file I want to use but tell the module it's temporary so that it can be removed without my intervention? - Jason -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
