greg ewing lwbwyflqtcanterburyacnz guido van rossum wrote imo mkstemp major pain use raw file descriptors return value id much rather recommend namedtemporaryfile return streams problem namedtemporaryfile deletes file soon close makes namedness rather useless far see dont want happen use mkstemp greg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 151042 1200 pythondev warn mktemp