(I'm using Python 2.6 and nose
.)
I'm writing tests for my Python app. I want one test to open a new file, close it, and then delete it. Naturally, I prefer that this will happen inside a temporary directory, because I don't want to trash the user's filesystem. And, it needs to be cross-OS.
How do I do it?
See the tempfile module in the standard library
Here are the examples of using TemporaryFile
and TemporaryDirectory
as context managers:
with tempfile.TemporaryFile() as fp:
fp.write(b'Hello world!')
fp.seek(0)
fp.read()
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdirname:
print('created temporary directory', tmpdirname)