dynamically generating temporary files through python/cgi

[Tiziano Bettio]

poisondart wrote:

>Is there a way to dynamically generate temporary files (such as an
>html, xml or text file) in Python?
>
>I'm not sure if I'm explaining myself clearly as I've no clue how to
>describe this mechanism. I've seen it on certain websites that will
>generate a file under certain parameters (through forms) that will
>dissapear (i.e. delete itself) after a specified amount of time. These
>files usually have some phony string for their filenames...like it's
>been md5 hashed or something.
>
>Is there a group of library functions that allow this? I imagine that
>if i manually go and allocate a bunch of timers to monitor files, it
>would be really expensive in load. Or perhaps is this a client-side
>mechanism?
>
>Thanks,
>- poisondart
>
>  
>
hi there

first of you could use the tempfile

import tempfile

tempfile.mktemp('.thefileendingudlike')

i never really studied the cgi capability of python but for example in 
php there is the posibility to serve a request with a mime formated 
response such as html, gif, pdf, and so on. so if u want to generate 
content dynamically u wouldn't need to store those files but generate 
and send em on request without having to destroy them later on..

hope this is helpful

cheers

tc