Steven D'Aprano <steve <at> pearwood.info> writes: > > 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.
For such files, you want deterministic naming in order to find them again, so you won't use the tempfile module... _______________________________________________ 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