os.tmpfile()

[Steve Purcell]

Kenneth Anderson wrote:
> >>> f1 = os.tmpfile()
> >>> f1
> <open file '<tmpfile>', mode 'w+' at eed68>
> >>> f1.readlines()
> []
> >>> f1.write('check')
> >>> f1.readlines()
> 
> '\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\...long, long list of \000   '

Not sure about this, but you could try 'tempfile.mktemp' to get a unique
filename, then explicitly open it yourself to see if the results are any
different.

> any notions about this.  I would really prefer not to write a file
> but rather just write the data to a file object.

Maybe you just need to use the StringIO (or cStringIO) module if you want
an in-memory file-like object?

-Steve

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