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<html><head><title></title><style type="text/css"><!--body{padding:1ex;margin:0px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:small;}a[href]{color:-moz-hyperlinktext !important;text-decoration:-moz-anchor-decoration;}blockquote{margin:0;border-left:2px solid #144fae;padding-left:1em;}blockquote blockquote{border-color:#006312;}blockquote blockquote blockquote{border-color:#540000;}--></style></head><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;" dir="ltr"><div>I'm doing a code review of an application that occassionally writes blocks of secure data to temp files created with tempfile.TemporaryFile( delete=True ).</div>

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<div>How secure are temp files created via tempfile.TemporaryFile( delete=True )?</div>

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<div>Are there OS specific nuances I should be concerned about regarding use of this function on Windows (XP or higher) or Linux?</div>

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<div>Thank you,</div>

<div>Malcolm</div>

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