"Inserting" a line in a text file?

[Mark Hadfield]

"Duncan Smith" <buzzard at urubu.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ab9jch$hv1$1 at newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...

> It just occured to me that I need to ensure that any temporary file
> has a unique path + filename.  Is there some common idiom for this,
> or is os.tempnam([dir[,prefix]]) or os.tmpnam() appropriate?
> Cheers.

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-tempfile.html

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