[Python-Dev] Rationale for NamedTemporaryFile revisited [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-01-17 Thread Ole.Nielsen
I found this posting, and those following it, as I too am baffled that NamedTemporaryFile doesn't let you read the generated file - even within the same script. For unit testing it is very commonplace to generate a test file on the fly and then use it as input the function being tested. NamedTempor

Re: [Python-Dev] Rationale for NamedTemporaryFile revisited [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-01-17 Thread Ole.Nielsen
Thank you very much for the quick reply. I believe we have to close the file in order be able to read it in - in this case to feed a unittest. I actually tried to read it in before closing it, but (as I suspected) the data wasn't available. We use unit testing for pretty much all functions and c