tempfile

Temporary files.

This module provides generic, low- and high-level interfaces for
creating temporary files and directories.  All of the interfaces
provided by this module can be used without fear of race conditions
except for 'mktemp'.  'mktemp' is subject to race conditions and
should not be used; it is provided for backward compatibility only.

The default path names are returned as str.  If you supply bytes as
input, all return values will be in bytes.  Ex:

    >>> tempfile.mkstemp()
    (4, '/tmp/tmptpu9nin8')
    >>> tempfile.mkdtemp(suffix=b'')
    b'/tmp/tmppbi8f0hy'

This module also provides some data items to the user:

  TMP_MAX  - maximum number of names that will be tried before
             giving up.
  tempdir  - If this is set to a string before the first use of
             any routine from this module, it will be considered as
             another candidate location to store temporary files.

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gettempdir: Returns tempfile.tempdir as str.
gettempdirb: Returns tempfile.tempdir as bytes.
gettempprefix: The default prefix for temporary directories as string.
gettempprefixb: The default prefix for temporary directories as bytes.

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mkdtemp: User-callable function to create and return a unique temporary directory.
mkstemp: User-callable function to create and return a unique temporary file.
mktemp: User-callable function to return a unique temporary file name.

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NamedTemporaryFile: Create and return a temporary file.

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SpooledTemporaryFile: Temporary file wrapper, specialized to switch from BytesIO or StringIO to a real file when it exceeds a certain size or when a fileno is needed.

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tempdir: When set to a value other than None, this variable defines the default value for the dir argument to the functions defined in this module, including its type, bytes or str.
TemporaryDirectory: Create and return a temporary directory.
TemporaryFile: Create and return a temporary file.

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