python and os.system() failure

[Michael Hoffman]

Anthony wrote:

> I only have a tempfile object:
> 
> tmp = tempfile.mkstemp(dir="/var/tmp/")

Why aren't you using NamedTemporaryFile instead? Using mkstemp adds a 
lot of complications that are usually unnecessary.

> I will try to explicitly call a close() or whatever the syntax is to
> finalize the object to deletion by garbage collection.

Files created with mkstemp are neither closed nor deleted when they are 
finalized. I don't see how GC comes into it either.
-- 
Michael Hoffman