Create A Temporary File

h1ros

Goal¶

This post aims to create a temporary file using tempfile

Reference

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import tempfile

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temp_file = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
temp_file.name

Out[9]:

'/var/folders/9_/tl0k78wd62xchzsh_4x4bz0h0000gn/T/tmp75145s92'

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!ls -a /var/folders/9_/tl0k78wd62xchzsh_4x4bz0h0000gn/T/ | grep tmp7

tmp75145s92

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temp_dir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
temp_dir.name

Out[8]:

'/var/folders/9_/tl0k78wd62xchzsh_4x4bz0h0000gn/T/tmpje1mz_wj'

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!ls /var/folders/9_/tl0k78wd62xchzsh_4x4bz0h0000gn/T/ | grep tmpje

tmpje1mz_wj