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() >> >> import os >> os.remove(tmp) >> > > 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. > > > >>>> tmp = tempfile.mktemp() >>>> tmp >>>> > '/tmp/tmpZkS0Gj' > >>>> 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' > > > > > You might like to read help(tempfile.mktemp). > > (By the way... the whole point of using tempfile is to avoid needing to > delete the file by hand afterwards.) > > > > -- Shane Geiger IT Director National Council on Economic Education [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 402-438-8958 | http://www.ncee.net Leading the Campaign for Economic and Financial Literacy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
