Handling Temporary File in Python

Hi Pythonistas!

Today we will learn a simple technique for handling temporary files in Python. We face some situations where we need temporary files in our programs. Usually what we do is create a file and then do the stuff then after done we programmatically delete the file.  Today we are going to learn how to create a temporary file which automatically deleted when we close the file. In python’s standard library then is a module called tempfile. Let’s learn with an example

Code

import tempfile

with tempfile.TemporaryFile() as fp:
    fp.write(b'Hello world!')
    fp.seek(0)
    fp.read()

We can see that a tempfile works similarly to a regular file in python. This module has a temporary directory feature as well. To learn more deeply you can refer to this link tempfile.

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