[issue22387] Making tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile a class

[Antony Lee]

Antony Lee added the comment:

The initial idea was to solve #14243 (NamedTemporaryFile would be more useful on Windows if you could close it without deleting) by adding a "closed" keyword argument to the constructor of a subclass, that would set "delete" to False and then close it, e.g.

class NTF(NamedTemporaryFile):
    def __init__(self, *args, closed=False, **kwargs):
        if closed: kwargs["delete"] = True
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        if closed: self.close()

Actually, there are some not-so-nice interactions with the context-manager protocol though, as the file cannot be reopened.  So it's not clear that this is such a good idea.

Still, it somewhat confusing that a CamelCase object is not actually a type (especially when TemporaryDirectory is one).

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