Am 08.12.2010 19:05, schrieb astar: > Hi, > > I recently got caught on tempfiles with respect to > urllib.urlretrieve, which can create a tmpfile. Ah, but the file > simply could not be found on the file system, even as root. But > within the program that created the tmpfile, you could do useful > things with the tmpfile. So the discussion in this thread is useful > to me in understanding the rules. But having been given a clue by > someone else, I never did find any python library documentation that > was at all informative, even to the level of discourse in this > thread.
By default the tempfile module creates anonymous temporary files. The files are created with O_CREAT | O_EXCL and unlinked ASAP. As a result the temporary file no longer has a filename on the file system, just an open file descriptor in the current process. If you need a file with a name, use the NamedTemporaryFile feature of the tempfile module. Christian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
