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Tip revision: 6a05f951cd8a1acafaf77e248ec60edd1ce6c08d authored by Guido van Rossum on 22 October 1996, 19:27:46 UTC
Got rid of most XXXes in the News chapter. Bumped the version to 1.4.
Got rid of most XXXes in the News chapter. Bumped the version to 1.4.
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libtempfile.tex
\section{Standard Module \sectcode{tempfile}}
\stmodindex{tempfile}
\indexii{temporary}{file name}
\indexii{temporary}{file}
\renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(in module tempfile)}
This module generates temporary file names. It is not \UNIX{} specific,
but it may require some help on non-\UNIX{} systems.
Note: the modules does not create temporary files, nor does it
automatically remove them when the current process exits or dies.
The module defines a single user-callable function:
\begin{funcdesc}{mktemp}{}
Return a unique temporary filename. This is an absolute pathname of a
file that does not exist at the time the call is made. No two calls
will return the same filename.
\end{funcdesc}
The module uses two global variables that tell it how to construct a
temporary name. The caller may assign values to them; by default they
are initialized at the first call to \code{mktemp()}.
\begin{datadesc}{tempdir}
When set to a value other than \code{None}, this variable defines the
directory in which filenames returned by \code{mktemp()} reside. The
default is taken from the environment variable \code{TMPDIR}; if this
is not set, either \code{/usr/tmp} is used (on \UNIX{}), or the current
working directory (all other systems). No check is made to see
whether its value is valid.
\end{datadesc}
\ttindex{TMPDIR}
\begin{datadesc}{template}
When set to a value other than \code{None}, this variable defines the
prefix of the final component of the filenames returned by
\code{mktemp()}. A string of decimal digits is added to generate
unique filenames. The default is either ``\code{@\var{pid}.}'' where
\var{pid} is the current process ID (on \UNIX{}), or ``\code{tmp}'' (all
other systems).
\end{datadesc}
Warning: if a \UNIX{} process uses \code{mktemp()}, then calls
\code{fork()} and both parent and child continue to use
\code{mktemp()}, the processes will generate conflicting temporary
names. To resolve this, the child process should assign \code{None}
to \code{template}, to force recomputing the default on the next call
to \code{mktemp()}.
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