Send file contents in place of file name - Python 2

Question

I am using a module with function foo(bar) where bar is supposed to be a str that contains the path for a text file that is read-in within foo .

Is it possible to create my_str = str(...) that contains the text that would otherwise be in bar and somehow pass my_str to foo in place of the text file.

Right off the bat, I would assume that this is not possible. It seems that if bar is used within open(bar, 'r') , then passing content to a function that is asking for a path does not make sense. Nonetheless I wanted to check with the stack's collective intelligence. Thanks.

Answer 1

You could populate a NamedTemporaryFile with the contents of your string and then pass in its name attribute. If you set it up with delete=True it'll auto-delete itself when it's closed.