Guido> Have we documented the alternatives well enough? I suppose we could document explicitly how to use mkstemp() in place of mktemp(), but the difference in return value is fairly modest:
>>> tempfile.mktemp() '/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/tmpV_5OLi' >>> tempfile.mkstemp() (3, '/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/tmpmS7K4T') and the argument list is quite similar as well: >>> help(tempfile.mktemp) Help on function mktemp in module tempfile: mktemp(suffix='', prefix='tmp', dir=None) ... >>> help(tempfile.mkstemp) Help on function mkstemp in module tempfile: mkstemp(suffix='', prefix='tmp', dir=None, text=False) ... Guido> In most cases NamedTemporaryFile will work, ... It's API seems to be a bit farther from the mktemp API than that of mkstemp. Skip _______________________________________________ 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