Guido> I'd be much happier if there was a standard API in tempfile.py Guido> that did that for you, so you wouldn't have to understand Guido> fdopen().
That can be arranged: http://bugs.python.org/issue2717 Guido> (Your example is wrong BTW, the open mode would have to be Guido> something like 'rb+' or 'wb+'.) I'm not disagreeing with you, but it seems odd that os.fdopen doesn't simply obey the mode of the file descriptor it receives as its argument (e.g., normally opened with "w+b"). 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