From fa4a818c2a76c65e01e5161e3ec94d7427791d4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seyon Sivarajah <seyon.sivarajah@quantinuum.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:38:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] use dot pipe rather than tempfile

---
 hugr-py/tests/conftest.py | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hugr-py/tests/conftest.py b/hugr-py/tests/conftest.py
index b6b7bfb21c..914546dce7 100644
--- a/hugr-py/tests/conftest.py
+++ b/hugr-py/tests/conftest.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import subprocess
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from enum import Enum
-from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, TypeVar
 
 from typing_extensions import Self
@@ -166,9 +165,7 @@ def validate(
         dot = h.render_dot()
         assert snap == dot.source
         if os.environ.get("HUGR_RENDER_DOT"):
-            with NamedTemporaryFile(mode="w", delete=True) as f:
-                # test rendering succeeds
-                dot.render(f.name)
+            dot.pipe("svg")
 
 
 def _run_hugr_cmd(serial: str, cmd: list[str]):