Isaac Young <isyo...@pm.me> added the comment:

Perhaps the documentation should be more explicit, but I wouldn't say this is 
an issue. Both mkstemp and mkdtemp are low level functions which are intended 
to have this kind of flexibility.

The os.unlink, and the equivalent os.remove, are POSIX defined functions which 
always deletes the name from the filesystem but the file will remain in memory 
so long as there are file descriptors referencing it. So using 
os.close(file_descriptor) is actually how you are expected to use this API.

Is there any reason you don't want to use [Named]TemporaryFile? They are  high 
level interfaces which handle the cleanup.

----------
nosy: +StillSubjectToChange

_______________________________________
Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue42830>
_______________________________________
_______________________________________________
Python-bugs-list mailing list
Unsubscribe: 
https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com

Reply via email to