tempman 0.1.0

Create and clean up temporary directories

API

tempdir.create_temp_dir()

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

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.

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)

Installation

pip install tempman