Understanding tempfile.TemporaryFile

[Shane Geiger]

Yes, I knew this.  Good call, it was just a bad copy and paste example
of lines that showed up close together in a file.  My apologies.

>> import tempfile
>> tmp = tempfile.mktemp()
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>> import os
>> os.remove(tmp)
>>     
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> Not only does that not answer the Original Poster's question, but I don't 
> think it does what you seem to think it does.
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>>>> tmp = tempfile.mktemp()
>>>> tmp
>>>>         
> '/tmp/tmpZkS0Gj'
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>>>> type(tmp)
>>>>         
> <type 'str'>
>   
>>>> import os
>>>> os.remove(tmp)
>>>>         
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmpZkS0Gj'
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> You might like to read help(tempfile.mktemp).
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> (By the way... the whole point of using tempfile is to avoid needing to 
> delete the file by hand afterwards.)
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Shane Geiger
IT Director
National Council on Economic Education
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