Re: tempfile Question

2006-06-07 Thread John Machin
On 7/06/2006 3:57 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:56:13 +1000, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: The dir, prefix and suffix parameters are passed to mkstemp(). snip So I'd be thinking about using the (deprecated) mktemp()

Re: tempfile Question

2006-06-07 Thread Steve Holden
John Machin wrote: On 7/06/2006 3:57 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:56:13 +1000, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: The dir, prefix and suffix parameters are passed to mkstemp(). snip So I'd be thinking about using the

Re: tempfile Question

2006-06-07 Thread John Machin
On 8/06/2006 2:57 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 21:53:02 +1000, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: I passed over mkstemp() because (according to my reading of the manual), mkstemp() requires an *extra* step (close the file), leaving

tempfile Question

2006-06-06 Thread Gregory Piñero
Hey group, I have a command line tool that I want to be able to call from a Python script. The problem is that this tool only writes to a file. So my solution is to give the tool a temporary file to write to and then have Python read that file. I figure that's the safest way to deal with this

Re: tempfile Question

2006-06-06 Thread John Machin
On 7/06/2006 7:50 AM, Gregory Piñero wrote: Hey group, I have a command line tool that I want to be able to call from a Python script. The problem is that this tool only writes to a file. So my solution is to give the tool a temporary file to write to and then have Python read that file.

Re: tempfile Question

2006-06-06 Thread John Machin
On 7/06/2006 7:50 AM, Gregory Piñero wrote: Hey group, I have a command line tool that I want to be able to call from a Python script. The problem is that this tool only writes to a file. Another Fantastic Manual gives another idea: Pdftotext reads the PDF file, PDF-file, and