How do I persist to disk a temporary file using Python?

Question

I am attempting to use the \'tempfile\' module for manipulating and creating text files. Once the file is ready I want to save it to disk. I thought it would be as simple as usi

Answer 1

You could always use shutil.copyfileobj, in your example:

new_file = open('bar.txt', 'rw')
shutil.copyfileobj(f, new_file)