[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Erik, I am going to be displaying sections of text in the Terminal Window on 
> OS X.  
> I wanted to format the text in a specific way and thought it might be quicker 
> to 
> output all the text to a temporary file that I could quickly read sections 
> from instead 
> of storing in memory.  Not sure if this is the most efficient way to do this 
> or not but 
> thought at least it'd be a good way to learn something new in Python.  I was 
> assuming tmpfile() would automatically create some sort of temporary file 
> that 
> would automatically delete itself when the code was finished.

It is more likely that keeping it in a list will be more efficient, and 
easier to handle anyway.

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