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A (often short lived) file, automatically created for reasons like storing data that no longer fit into memory, for inter-process communication or to save state for possible crash recovery. Many programming platforms provide means functions to work with such files easier.

A temporary file is an often short lived file, automatically created for reasons like storing data that no longer fit into memory, for inter-process communication or to save state for possible crash recovery. Many programming platforms provide means functions to work with such files easier.

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Python 3.4: Temporary files not being deleted automatically

If you're using the tempfile library, then you might have experienced the scenario where the temporary file is not being automatically deleted even your program has completed. This is quite crucial for programs which would be used multiple times as…
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Develop a program in Stata to handle multiple files in work folder just like SAS using tempfile

I am developing this wrapper around tempfile in Stata to handle multiple datasets at the same time without having to save them in current directory. So in essence I want Stata to mimic SAS, and that is the reason the program name is work; the…
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