On 23Oct2018 11:24, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
Cameron Simpson wrote:
The doco for mktemp (do not use! use mkstemp or the
NamedTemporaryFile
classes instead!) explicitly mentions using delete=False.
Well, "permanent temporary file" does sound odd.
By the way, NamedTemporaryFile
Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 21Oct2018 10:55, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
>>boB Stepp wrote:
>>> So I am now wondering if using
>>> tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) would solve this problem
>>> nicely? As I am not very familiar with this library, are there any
>>> unforeseen
On 21.10.18 08:13, boB Stepp wrote:
Use case: I want to allow a user of my Solitaire Scorekeeper program
to be able to give any name he wants to each game of solitaire he
wishes to record. My thought for permanent storage of each game's
parameters is to use a dictionary to map the user-chosen
On 21Oct2018 10:55, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote:
boB Stepp wrote:
So I am now wondering if using
tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) would solve this problem
nicely? As I am not very familiar with this library, are there any
unforeseen issues I should be made aware of? Would
boB Stepp wrote:
> Use case: I want to allow a user of my Solitaire Scorekeeper program
> to be able to give any name he wants to each game of solitaire he
> wishes to record. My thought for permanent storage of each game's
> parameters is to use a dictionary to map the user-chosen game names
On 21Oct2018 01:13, boB Stepp wrote:
Use case: I want to allow a user of my Solitaire Scorekeeper program
to be able to give any name he wants to each game of solitaire he
wishes to record. My thought for permanent storage of each game's
parameters is to use a dictionary to map the
On 21/10/18 07:13, boB Stepp wrote:
> My initial thought was to just have a sequence of game names with
> incrementing numerical suffixes: game_0, game_1, ... , game_n. But
> this would require the program to keep track of what the next
> available numerical suffix is.
The traditional approach
Hi Robert,
Far from being an expert, my two cents on this:
- As I understand it, you should at least use the 'dir' parameter to
NamedTemporaryFile, otherwise your files will be created in a '/tmp/'-like
directory that may be wiped clean by the OS now and then.
- I seems that the only
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 1:47 AM Quentin Agren wrote:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> Far from being an expert, my two cents on this:
>
> - As I understand it, you should at least use the 'dir' parameter to
> NamedTemporaryFile, otherwise your files will be created in a '/tmp/'-like
> directory that may be
