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Re: NamedTemporaryFile does not match documentation

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Date 2013-02-22 13:42 +1100
Subject Re: NamedTemporaryFile does not match documentation
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.2235.1361500927.2939.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> wrote:
>> NamedTemporaryFile by default opens a file in binary mode ('w+b'). Write
>> bytes or specify text mode.
>>
>>>>> f.write(b"Hello World!\n")
>> 13
>>>>> ft = NamedTemporaryFile('w+', delete=False)
>>>>> ft.write("Hello World!\n")
>> 13
>
> Thank you Chris and Serhiy, that helped.  I'm inclined to open a
> documentation bug because I could not reproduce the code/output
> snippet on page
> http://docs.python.org/release/3.2.2/library/tempfile.html#module-tempfile.

Yep, that looks like a docs bug (it was probably copied straight in
from the 2.x docs). Nice and easy to fix, you could submit a patch
with the bug report and make the devs love you!

ChrisA

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Re: NamedTemporaryFile does not match documentation Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-22 13:42 +1100

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