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Create and clean up temporary directories

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Tempman can be used to create temporary directories. These temporary directories can then be easily cleaned up by calling close, or using the directory as a context manager.

By using a fixed root for temporary directory, Tempman also allows cleanup of directories older than a specified timeout.

Example

import tempman

with tempman.create_temp_dir() as directory:
    assert os.path.exists(directory.path)
    assert os.path.isdir(directory.path)

assert not os.path.exists(directory.path)

API

tempdir.create_temp_dir(dir=None)

Creates a temporary directory and returns an instance of TemporaryDirectory. The directory will be deleted when the instance of TemporaryDirectory is closed.

If dir is set, the temporary directory is created as a sub-directory of dir.

TemporaryDirectory

Has the following attributes:

  • path - path to the temporary directory

  • close() - delete the temporary directory, including any files and sub-directories

TemporaryDirectory is a context manager, so using with will also delete the temporary directory.

tempdir.root(dir, timeout=None)

Creates a factory for temporary directories, all of which will be under the directory dir. Returns Root.

If timeout is set, any sub-directories with an age greater than timeout seconds will be deleted on cleanup. Cleanup occurs during root.create_temp_dir(), and can also be triggered manually by calling root.cleanup(). The age of a sub-directory is determined by the modification or access time, whichever is later. timeout can either be a number of seconds, or an instance of datetime.timedelta.

Root

Has the following attributes:

  • create_temp_dir(): creates a temporary directory in the same way as tempman.create_temp_dir(), except that the parent directory is always the directory of the Root. Also calls cleanup().

  • cleanup(): if timeout is set, delete old sub-directories as described above.

Installation

pip install tempman

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