How do I close the files from tempfile.mkstemp?

Question

On my machine Linux machine ulimit -n gives 1024. This code:

from tempfile import mkstemp

for n in xrange(1024 + 1):
    f, path =         


        

Answer 1

Since mkstemp() returns a raw file descriptor, you can use os.close():

import os
from tempfile import mkstemp

for n in xrange(1024 + 1):
    f, path = mkstemp()
    # Do something with 'f'...
    os.close(f)