Python 3.2.2 (default, Feb 14 2012, 08:06:31) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-50)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile >>> f = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) >>> f <tempfile._TemporaryFileWrapper object at 0x7f867e8bc050> >>> f.name '/tmp/tmpqxnd_4' >>> f.write("Hello World!\n") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface
Or, maybe I am reading the documentation incorrectly. My goal is to be able to write to that temporary file along the lines of "f.write()" or "with open(f) as writer ...". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list