nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom greg ewing wrote 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 much fixed 26 pass deletefalse namedtemporaryfile constructor stop cheers nick nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom brisbane australia httpwwwboredomandlazinessorg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 133156 1000 pythondev warn mktemp