[socal-piggies] weird behavior with files on different filesystems

[William Yardley]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 12:17:47PM -0800, Daniel Arbuckle wrote:
> Two more hints.
> 
> First, if you want a temp file, mkstemp isn't the function you want to
> use. You really want tempfile.TemporaryFile or
> tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile. mkstemp is a low-level interface, and
> it'll just hurt you to use it. The code you posted doesn't actually
> call mkstemp, but it's something to be aware of.

Yeah - I did use it (mkstemp), but I'll look into 

I did look at the tempfile pydoc, but didn't realize that it made more
sense to use (Named)TemporaryFile.

Thanks to everyone with your on (and off) list help - the pointers are
appreciated.

w