[issue4928] Problem with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Where does it say that they are supposed to be deleted when the process > is killed,

Well, it is more of a "natural expectation" I guess.

> and what mechanism specifically is supposed to actually perform the
> deletion?

That's not the kind of questions users ask themselves.
If the process shutdown is greatful, either __del__ or a weakref callback is adequate. We probably can't do anything for brutal killings, though.

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