Create a temporary FIFO (named pipe) in Python?

Question

How can you create a temporary FIFO (named pipe) in Python? This should work:

import tempfile

temp_file_name = mktemp()
os.mkfifo(temp_file_name)
open(temp_         


        

Answer 1

Why not just use mkstemp()?

For example:

import tempfile
import os

handle, filename = tempfile.mkstemp()
os.mkfifo(filename)
writer = open(filename, os.O_WRONLY)
reader = open(filename, os.O_RDONLY)
os.close(handle)