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Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook Over 100 recipes to fully leverage the features of the standard library in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830829
Length 366 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Alessandro Molina Alessandro Molina
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Containers and Data Structures FREE CHAPTER 2. Text Management 3. Command Line 4. Filesystem and Directories 5. Date and Time 6. Read/Write Data 7. Algorithms 8. Cryptography 9. Concurrency 10. Networking 11. Web Development 12. Multimedia 13. Graphical User Interfaces 14. Development Tools 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Named temporary files

Usually when working with temporary files, we don't care where they are stored. We need to create them, store some content there, and get rid of them when we are done. Most of the time, we use temporary files when we want to store something that is too big to fit in memory, but sometimes you need to be able to provide a file to another tool or software, and a temporary file is a great way to avoid the need to know where to store such a file.

In that situation, we need to know the path that leads to the temporary file so that we can provide it to the other tool.

That's where tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile can help. Like all other tempfile forms of temporary files, it will be created for us and will be deleted automatically as soon as we are done working with it, but different from the other types of temporary files, it will have a known path that we...

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