Understanding tempfile.TemporaryFile

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:17:01 -0600, Shane Geiger wrote:

> import tempfile
> tmp = tempfile.mktemp()
> 
> import os
> os.remove(tmp)

Not only does that not answer the Original Poster's question, but I don't 
think it does what you seem to think it does.


>>> tmp = tempfile.mktemp()
>>> tmp
'/tmp/tmpZkS0Gj'
>>> type(tmp)
<type 'str'>
>>> import os
>>> os.remove(tmp)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/tmp/tmpZkS0Gj'




You might like to read help(tempfile.mktemp).

(By the way... the whole point of using tempfile is to avoid needing to 
delete the file by hand afterwards.)



-- 
Steven