Python equivalent of _tempnam?

[Graeme Mathieson]

In <3e8ab45b$1 at mail.hmgcc.gov.uk>,
on Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:58:51 +0100, "Richard" <richardd at hmgcc.gov.uk> writes:

> I have been told that a way of doing this in C is by using _tempnam( ).
> However I want to write this in Python, so is there an equivalent function?

os.tempnam() by any chance?  Though, as the documentation[1] points out,
you'd be better off using os.tmpfile() instead.

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/os-file-dir.html
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