> NamedTemporaryFile by default opens a file in binary mode ('w+b'). Write
> bytes or specify text mode.
>
>>>> f.write(b"Hello World!\n")
> 13
>>>> ft = NamedTemporaryFile('w+', delete=False)
>>>> ft.write("Hello World!\n")
> 13Thank you Chris and Serhiy, that helped. I'm inclined to open a documentation bug because I could not reproduce the code/output snippet on page http://docs.python.org/release/3.2.2/library/tempfile.html#module-tempfile. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
