read() on tempfile

[Sidharth Kuruvila]

"cherico" <cherico at bonbon.net> wrote in message
news:afc115ec.0401291041.155b51ee at posting.google.com...
> from tempfile import *
>
> f = NamedTemporaryFile ()
> f = write ( 'test' )
> print f.read () #here print nothing
>
> why is it nothing to read()?
> I suppose f is of mode 'w+'

the rpoblem is probably that your file pointer is sitting at the end of the
file after you write something
try f.seek(0) before you read, might work