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Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of NamedTemporaryFile

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 == NamedTemporaryFile ==
 The NamedTemporaryFile module provides a handle on a temporary file that can be re-opened on any platform. For most platforms, this is just a thin layer over the standard Python tempfile.TemporaryFile class, but MS Windows users are given a custom class with similar properties. This is needed because in Windows NT, the default implementation of NamedTemporaryFile uses the O_TEMPORARY flag, and thus [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-December/359474.html cannot be reopened].
+NamedTemporaryFile is based on Python's [http://docs.python.org/2.7/library/tempfile.html#tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile function of the same name]. Django's version rectifies a problem with the standard implementation whereby the returned temporary file cannot be reopened on Windows. Django's version allows the file to be reopened in the same process on all platforms (though it 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).
+It accepts the same parameters as its python counterpart.
+{{{
+NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+b', bufsize=-1, suffix='', prefix='', dir=None)
+}}}
+NamedTemporaryFile is for Django's internal use, and as of Python 2.6 does not support the full range of keyword arguments available in the standard Python version.