GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Windows
GIMP Experience: Basic Level

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Hi
assuming a script has created a new pattern (file-pat-save), which is the correct way (if there is any) to delete it at the end?
I didn't find a file-pat-delete nor a gimp-pattern-delete and the gimp-item-delete seems not to accept a pattern name as item
thanks

Why do you create a pattern file? You can do a clipboard copy of the pattern image, and then use the clipboard pattern (always the first in the list of patterns)(*).

Otherwise, no specific API to erase patterns on the disk from a script, you have to do this with standard filesystem calls (if you can tell the filename...).

(*) In the general case, scripts should avoid copying things to the clipboard and/or using them, because the clipboard is a system-wide resource and you can't control what happens to it between your copy and your paste. And you don't know if the script isn't going to overwrite something the user (who could be using another app while the script runs) has just copied.

@Wallace: thanks, but I wanted to ask a way to perform the deletion from inside the script

@Ofnuts: thanks, and -as you said in the note (*) - I prefer to file-save my temporary pattern. Thus I need to delete it manually, outside the script (so, you come back on the play, Wallace!)

If you do a file-pat-save, then you supply a complete file name, so getting rid of the pattern file later is just a matter of using that same file name with some 'erase'/'unlink' function, if script-fu has such (otherwise, as always, you can upgrade to a real programming language that will have one).

Ofnuts
my script is written in Python (yes, I'm a little bit re-studying Python), so, in this case, which one is the gimp_python function to use? thanks

edit: the Python function used to create it is the following:

Not gimp-python...

excellent! added your suggested two instructions, and the deletion works perfectly!
Thanks a lot, Ofnuts!