I think it's a very minor feature at best -- but I do admit to having implemented this at least once so I'm not against adding it as a new feature to the tempfile module. It's getting awfully late for 2.5 though... (feature freeze is at 2.5b1 which is planned for June 14 IIRC).
--Guido On 5/28/06, Andrew Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The mailing-list bot said introduce myself so... > > I'm Andy Chambers. I've been lurking on the web-interface to the list > for a while. I recently started trying to implement one of the items on > PEP 42 so I thought I should join the list and make myself known. > > The item I'm working on is the new kind of temporary file that only > turns into a file when required (before which time presumably its a > StringIO). > > Do we still want this? I suggest it be exposed as a class TempFile in > the tempfile module. If yes, I'll write the test cases and submit a > patch. > > Regards, > Andy > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Inbox full of spam? Get leading spam protection and 1GB storage with All New > Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
