[plug] Quick Python question

[Craig Ringer]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 12:21, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> I want to save the standard input into a scratch file in Python.

> Will

[snip]

> in 2.3 do the trick? For arbitrary input content?

It looks fine to me.

However, 'tempfile' module provides the functions:
	TempFile
and
	NamedTempFile
which might be worth thinking about. I'd use TempFile over mkstemp if I
knew I wouldn't need to access the temp file from something I couldn't
pass a file descriptor to.

You also have the options of using StringIO, which is useful for when
when you want file-like behaviour but don't need a real on-disk file.
It's nice when you know the input won't be too large, as you don't need
to think about an on-disk file to clean up and keep secure.

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Craig Ringer