On Aug 2, 7:43 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > If the data is ephemeral, you could use the tempfile module.
Thanks! excellent suggestion. For future reference: If you do: import tempfile F=tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() then you have a usable (existing) filename F.name Beware that once the reference to F gets lost, the file gets deleted. Pass "delete=false" to NamedTemporaryFile to avoid that (but then you need to clean up yourself). An even dirtier version is filename=tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile().name which does give you a filename that is all likelyhood is usable and probably nonexistent, but leaves you with a nasty racing condition (see tempfile docs). -- -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
