[Python-Dev] Warn about mktemp once again?

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> IMO mkstemp() is a major pain because you have to use raw file
> descriptors on the return value. I'd much rather recommend
> [Named]TemporaryFile which return streams.

The problem with NamedTemporaryFile is that it deletes
the file as soon as you close it, which makes the
named-ness of it rather useless, as far as I can see.
If you don't want that to happen, you have to use
mkstemp.

-- 
Greg