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| author | Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com> | 2008-05-15 22:09:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com> | 2008-05-15 22:09:29 (GMT) |
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r62914 | skip.montanaro | 2008-05-08 20:45:00 -0400 (Thu, 08 May 2008) | 4 lines
Add an example about using NamedTemporaryFile() to replace mktemp(). I'm
unclear whether the verbatim text should have been indented or by how much.
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r62915 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-05-08 20:50:40 -0400 (Thu, 08 May 2008) | 2 lines
reindent example
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r62927 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:09:25 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2788: add .hgignore file.
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r62928 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:10:43 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines
#2781: fix function name.
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r62929 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:18:27 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines
Add a sentence to basicConfig() that is in the docstring.
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r62930 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:26:54 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines
Add another link to colorsys docs.
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r62931 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:36:07 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines
Add Kodos as a re reference.
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r62932 | georg.brandl | 2008-05-09 02:39:58 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 2 lines
Add a note about using reload().
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r62933 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-05-09 07:46:05 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 3 lines
Update planned release date.
Uncomment PEP 370 section.
Add some module items
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r62934 | christian.heimes | 2008-05-09 08:19:09 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 1 line
Add --user option to build_ext
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r62948 | mark.dickinson | 2008-05-09 13:54:23 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 3 lines
Issue #2487. math.ldexp(x, n) raised OverflowError when n was large and
negative; fix to return an (appropriately signed) zero instead.
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r62949 | martin.v.loewis | 2008-05-09 14:21:55 -0400 (Fri, 09 May 2008) | 1 line
Use the CHM file name that Sphinx assigns.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst index 7363940..25d5acb 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst @@ -152,6 +152,24 @@ The module defines the following user-callable functions: Use of this function may introduce a security hole in your program. By the time you get around to doing anything with the file name it returns, someone else may have beaten you to the punch. + :func:`mktemp` usage can be replaced easily with + :func:`NamedTemporaryFile`, passing it the `delete=False` parameter:: + + >>> f = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) + >>> print f.name + >>> f.write("Hello World!\n") + >>> f.close() + >>> os.unlink(f.name) + >>> f = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) + >>> f + <open file '<fdopen>', mode 'w+b' at 0x384698> + >>> f.name + '/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/tmpG7V1Y0' + >>> f.write("Hello World!\n") + >>> f.close() + >>> os.unlink(f.name) + >>> os.path.exists(f.name) + False The module uses two global variables that tell it how to construct a temporary name. They are initialized at the first call to any of the |