text_combined: nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom david harrison wrote 2008429 martin v löwis fact good reason mkstemp return fd except backward compatibility except backwards compatibility good reason keep osmkstemp greg ewings usecase one ive also times ie convenience function creating somewhat temporary file randomly named persists beyond closing file function doesnt stay os doesnt make difference though 26 gregs use case addressed new delete parameter tempfilenamedtemporaryfile implementation tempfile module uses osmkstemp though getting rid latter might cause problems cheers nick nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom brisbane australia httpwwwboredomandlazinessorg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 133201 1000 pythondev warn mktemp