poisondart wrote:
Is there a way to dynamically generate temporary files (such as an html, xml or text file) in Python?
I'm not sure if I'm explaining myself clearly as I've no clue how to describe this mechanism. I've seen it on certain websites that will generate a file under certain parameters (through forms) that will dissapear (i.e. delete itself) after a specified amount of time. These files usually have some phony string for their filenames...like it's been md5 hashed or something.
Is there a group of library functions that allow this? I imagine that if i manually go and allocate a bunch of timers to monitor files, it would be really expensive in load. Or perhaps is this a client-side mechanism?
Thanks, - poisondart
hi there
first of you could use the tempfile
import tempfile
tempfile.mktemp('.thefileendingudlike')i never really studied the cgi capability of python but for example in php there is the posibility to serve a request with a mime formated response such as html, gif, pdf, and so on. so if u want to generate content dynamically u wouldn't need to store those files but generate and send em on request without having to destroy them later on..
hope this is helpful
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