Re: using NamedTemporaryFile on windows

2005-12-29 Thread Lee Harr
On 2005-12-29, Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Harr wrote: Is there any other reason to use a named tempfile other than to be able to open it again? As it says, if you *don't close* the file, you can open it again if you are on a platform which supports that. Ok. I just started

Re: using NamedTemporaryFile on windows

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Lambacher
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:40:34AM -0500, Peter Hansen wrote: What I don't understand is why you _can't_ reopen the NamedTemporaryFile under Windows when you can reopen the file created by mkstemp (and the files created by TemporaryFile are created by mkstemp in the first place). Basically

Re: using NamedTemporaryFile on windows

2005-12-29 Thread Peter Hansen
Lee Harr wrote: On 2005-12-29, Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I don't understand is why you _can't_ reopen the NamedTemporaryFile under Windows when you can reopen the file created by mkstemp (and the files created by TemporaryFile are created by mkstemp in the first place). Are

Re: using NamedTemporaryFile on windows

2005-12-29 Thread Tim Peters
[Peter Hansen] What I don't understand is why you _can't_ reopen the NamedTemporaryFile under Windows when you can reopen the file created by mkstemp (and the files created by TemporaryFile are created by mkstemp in the first place). [Lee Harr] Are you saying you tried it and you actually can

using NamedTemporaryFile on windows

2005-12-28 Thread Lee Harr
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,

Re: using NamedTemporaryFile on windows

2005-12-28 Thread Peter Hansen
Lee Harr wrote: 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