p. pisze: > I am using the mutagen module to extract id3 information from mp3 > files. In order to do this, you give mutagen a filename, which it > converts into a file object using the python built-in "file" function. > > Unfortunately, my mp3 files don't live locally. They are on a number > of remote servers which I access using urllib2. > > Here is my dilemma: > I don't want to copy the files into a local directory for mutagen's > sake, only to have to remove them afterward. Instead, I'd like to load > the files into memory and still be able to hand the built-in "file" > function a filename to access the file in memory. > > Any ideas on how to do this?
Try with StringIO/cStringIO, these modules are supposed to give you in-memory objects compatible with file object interface. -- Jarek Zgoda http://zgodowie.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
