La til en funksjon som oppretter en midlertidig fil som man kan editere før man kjører commit

python/worblehat.py

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import sys
 import types
 import search
 import placement
+import tempfile
 
 def show_book_or_person(ids, commit_format=False, tmp_file=False):
     objects = map(get_book_or_person, ids)
@@ -27,9 +28,9 @@ def show_book_or_person(ids, commit_format=False, tmp_file=False):
     else:
         output = '\n'.join(objects)
     if tmp_file:
-        # TODO
-        #return write_tmpfile('-'.join(ids), output)
-        pass
+        filename = write_tmpfile('.'.join(ids), output)
+        print filename
+        return filename
     else:
         print output.strip()
 
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ def commit(filename=None): # TODO
 
 def edit_book_or_person(ids):
     filename = show_book_or_person(ids, commit_format=True, tmp_file=True)
+    print filename
 #    run_editor(filename) # TODO: må implementeres
     commit(filename)
 
@@ -215,7 +217,13 @@ def run_editor(filename):
 	else:
 		exit("Error: %s: File does not exist!" % filename)
 
-
+def write_tmpfile(pfix='', content=''):
+    file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(prefix=pfix, dir='/tmp', delete=False)
+    file.write(content)
+    name = file.name
+    file.close()
+    return name
+    
 
 cmdline_parsed = parse_cmdline(sys.argv[1:])
 print 'command line parsed to:', cmdline_parsed