On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:03:13 pm Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > > The tempfile module would be another example. > > Do you really need your temporary files to survive system crashes? ;)
It depends on what you mean by "temporary". Applications like OpenOffice can sometimes recover from an application crash or even a systems crash and give you the opportunity to restore the temporary files that were left lying around. Firefox does the same thing -- after a crash, it offers you the opportunity to open the websites you had open before. Konquorer does much the same, except it can only recover from application crashes, not system crashes. I can't tell you how many times such features have saved my hide! -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
