problems using pythom tempfile module

buffi bjorn.kempen at gmail.com
Sat Sep 15 17:24:18 EDT 2007


On Sep 15, 11:11 pm, "samir.... at googlemail.com"
<samir.... at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to test the tempfile module with the following script,
> which basically creates a temporary file, fills the file with some
> test data and prints it.
>
> import tempfile
>
> t = tempfile.TemporaryFile()
> t.write("lalalala")
> t.flush()
> print t.read()
>
> Unfortunately, the print statement gives me an empty string. Can
> somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong ?
>
> regards Samir

Do a t.seek(0) before you do the read to "rewind" the file and then it
should work.




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