Re: [Duplicity-talk] gpg key password asked for backup after verify

[edgar . soldin]

On 29.05.2017 13:26, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 1) This was from the README for 0.7.05:
> 
>         * Fix bug #1494228 CygWin: TypeError: basis_file must be a (true) file
> 
>           - The problem that caused the change to tempfile.TemporaryFile was 
> due
> 
>             to the fact that os.tmpfile always creates its file in the system
> 
>             temp directory, not in the directory specified.  The fix applied 
> was
> 
>             to use os.tmpfile in cygwin/windows and tempfile.TemporaryFile in 
> all
> 
>             the rest.  This means that cygwin is now broken with respect to 
> temp
> 
>             file placement of this one file (deleted automatically on close).

wrt. os.tmpfile() .. afaics. does 

   https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/tempfile.py#l484

use the os module ( os.open, os.fdopen ) all around to create temp files. 
aren't these supposed to return a (true) file? the docs say nothing in this 
regard. https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html#file-object-creation

..ede