Re: Creating a temporary file in Python

looping <kadeko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I want to create a temporary file, read it in an external command and
finally delete it (in Windows XP).

I try to use tempfile module but it doesn't work, the file couldn't be
open by my other process (error like: SP2-0310: unable to open file "c:
\docume~1\looping\locals~1\temp\tmpau81-s.sql")

You're using NamedTemporaryFile. The tempfile documentation
(http://docs.python.org/lib/module-tempfile.html) says:

" [ ... ] Whether the name can be used to open the file a second time,
while the named temporary file is still open, varies across platforms
(it can be so used on Unix; it cannot on Windows NT or later)."

You probably want to use tempfile.mkstemp and explicitly close
(before running the external command) and delete it.

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