fork after creating temporary file using NamedTemporaryFile

[rparimi]

Hello pythoners,

When I create temporary file using the tempfile module, and forkI)
later on in my program, I always see errors when the program exits. Is
this because the child process deletes temp file?
Here's a stripped down version of my script that exhibits this
problem:

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
import tempfile
import sys

cmd = []
cmd.append('/bin/ls')
cmd.append('-l')
cmd.append('/tmp')

foo = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+b')

pid = os.fork()
if pid:
print 'I am parent'
else:
print 'I am child'
sys.exit(0)

$ python sub.py
I am child
I am parent
Exception exceptions.OSError: (2, 'No such file or directory', '/tmp/
tmp-mZTPq') in <bound method _TemporaryFileWrapper.__del__ of <closed
file '<fdopen>', mode 'w+b' at 0xb7d2a578>ignored
How can these warnings be avoided? I tried to catch this exception
using try/except but it didn't work.

thanks!

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <g5*************@news.t-online.com>, Sebastian "lunar" Wiesner
wrote:

Relying on the destructor is *always* a bad idea, you should always
close files explicitly!

There shouldn't be any problem with files opened read-only.