I'm doing a program that uses a temporary file to save a serialized (pickled) object. Currently, the program is generating in /tmp , but this path is specific to Unix / Linux; wanted to take the path of the default operating system temporary directory that the program will run.
In Java, I know you can do with System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir") .
What's the equivalent way of doing this in Python?
tempfile.gettempdir () returns you the directory used as a temporary directory. / p>
import tempfile
print tempfile.gettempdir()
The talles response is technically correct, but it is best to use tempfile.TemporaryFile or tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile to create the temporary file instead of concatenating tempfile.gettempdir() with a constant name, so you guarantee the uniqueness of the file name preventing another file with the same name from being created by another thread , process or user.
import tempfile
tmp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) # pra não ser excluído qdo fizer close()
tmp.write("conteúdo do arquivo")
tmp.close()