text_combined: guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg imo mkstemp major pain use raw file descriptors return value id much rather recommend namedtemporaryfile return streams mon apr 28 2008 417 pm wrote guido documented alternatives well enough suppose could document explicitly use mkstemp place mktemp difference return value fairly modest tempfilemktemp varfolders5q5qtpn6xq2rawqk1ytw3utitmptmpv_5oli tempfilemkstemp 3 varfolders5q5qtpn6xq2rawqk1ytw3utitmptmpms7k4t argument list quite similar well helptempfilemktemp help function mktemp module tempfile mktempsuffix prefixtmp dirnone helptempfilemkstemp help function mkstemp module tempfile mkstempsuffix prefixtmp dirnone textfalse guido cases namedtemporaryfile work api seems bit farther mktemp api mkstemp skip guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 195517 0700 pythondev warn mktemp