On 2005-12-29, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lee Harr wrote: >> Is there any other reason to use a named tempfile other than >> to be able to open it again?
> As it says, if you *don't close* the file, you can open it again if you > are on a platform which supports that. > Ok. I just started wondering if maybe there was some other reason, like stat()ing the file, or taking a picture of Elvis pointing at it in a directory listing or something. > NamedTemporaryFile doesn't appear to have much purpose on Windows, but > that's more or less what the docs already say. I think the only thing > you were missing perhaps was this idea of "opening a file a second time" > *without having closed it first*. > > What I don't understand is why you _can't_ reopen the NamedTemporaryFile > under Windows when you can reopen the file created by mkstemp (and the > files created by TemporaryFile are created by mkstemp in the first place). > Are you saying you tried it and you actually can do what it says you can't do? I don't have any windows system to test this, but I want to write some code that will work on windows. I'm just going to use mkstemp. Thanks for your time. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
