how to switch from os.tmpnam to os.tmpfile

[Maric Michaud]

Well, I never used gnuplot and I didn't use Tkinter for a while, but :

Le Jeudi 08 Juin 2006 16:44, Harold Fellermann a écrit :
>         tmp = os.tmpnam()
>         gnuplot = subprocess.Popen(
>             "gnuplot", shell=True,
>             stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=file(tmp,"w")
>         )
>         stdout,stderr = gnuplot.communicate("""
>             set terminal tkcanvas interact
>             set output "%s"
>             """ % tmp + commands)
assuming tmp is a os.tmpfile and you connect it to the the stdout of your 
gnuplot command, something like :

         gnuplot = subprocess.Popen(
             "gnuplot", shell=True,
             stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=tmp
         )
         stdout,stderr = gnuplot.communicate("""
             set terminal tkcanvas interact
             set output /dev/stdout
             """ % tmp + commands)

should do the job.

>         assert not stderr
>         self.tk.call("source",tmp)
You still need to find a way to pass directly a file object to this call.

Also note if that works, and if you don't need to flush the datas on disk (if 
they fit in memory), you can use a file-like buffer (StringIO) instead of a 
tmpfile, this will save resources.

This said, you should consider writing your temporary file in a directory 
owned by you and not world writeable, which is perfectly safe.

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