How to create a named temporary file in memory?

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I would like to use Python's tempfile module to create a temporary file that I will use for communication between processes (use of pipes is awkward).

The documentation I've linked to above shows two functions that almost do what I want:

tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile # For creating named tempfiles

tempfile.SpooledTemporaryFile # For creating tempfiles in memory

but actually I want a tempfile that is both named AND in memory. Any ideas?

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