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Right, it doesn't create a filesystem file.  But that is the
point.  You work in memory and then write to your final
destination as needed.  Your code you have pasted in the
description does nothing special that requires the use of a
temporary file.  You can just write into a StringIO object,
skip the os.link call, and then just write out to the final
file location.