Alexander Steppke added the comment:
Hi David,
I followed your suggestion and tried to reproduce the problem without the
tempfile module. It turns out that is indeed an underlying issue. I am not sure
what the root cause is but now this is even a bigger problem: read() returns
information fr
R. David Murray added the comment:
I wonder if it is a bug in Windows? Have you tried similar experiments with
regular files? tempfile is really just about *where* the files are located
(and what happens when they are closed), not about their fundamental nature as
OS file objects. (I could
New submission from Alexander Steppke :
The tempfile module shows strange behavior under certain conditions. This might
lead to data leaking or other problems.
The test session looks as follows:
Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "
