Is there any other reason to use a named tempfile other than to be able to open it again? I am trying to understand this section of the documentation regarding NamedTemporaryFile:
""" Whether the name can be used to open the file a second time, while the named temporary file is still open, varies across platforms (it can be so used on Unix; it cannot on Windows NT or later) """ >From looking through the code, the NamedTemporaryFile will be deleted as soon as it is closed. So... if I can't open it again why does it need a name? Is there a way on windows to make a tempfile that I can open again? Maybe what I need is just mkstemp, since that also returns a name? If so, what is the point of NamedTemporaryFile? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
