Module temp
The temp module provides a NamedTemporaryFile that can be reopened in the same process on any platform. Most platforms use the standard Python tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile class, but Windows users are given a custom class.
This is needed because the Python implementation of NamedTemporaryFile uses the
O_TEMPORARY flag under Windows, which prevents the file from being reopened
if the same flag is not provided [1][2]. Note that this does not address the
more general issue of opening a file for writing and reading in multiple
processes in a manner that works across platforms.
The custom version of NamedTemporaryFile doesn't support the same keyword
arguments available in tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile.
1: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-December/336957.html
2: https://bugs.python.org/issue14243
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