temppath 2021.236.907

A quick way to get a temporary pathlib.Path.

temppath

Provides a quick way to get a pathlib.Path file in the system-defined temporary space. temppath does not wrap tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile, as that automatically deletes on close, and does not allow the same file to be written, closed, then read in Windows, which is inconsistent with the Unix implementation. Since temppath provides pathlib.Path objects, this is not an issue.

Usage

There is a nice context manager, which will remove the path for you.

from temppath import TemporaryPathContext

with TemporaryPathContext() as t:
    t.write_text('the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog')
    ...
    do_something_awesome_that_reads(t)

# The file is removed when you leave the `with` context.

You also have the option to just clean it up yourself if you need more control.

from temppath import TemporaryPath

t = TemporaryPath()
t.write_text('the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog')
...
do_something_awesome_that_reads(t)
...
t.unlink()