How can I create a tmp file in Python?

Question

I have this function that references the path of a file:

some_obj.file_name(FILE_PATH) 

where FILE_PATH is a string of the path of a file, i.e. H:/path/FILE_NAME.ext

I want to create a file FILE_NAME.ext inside my python script with the content of a string:

some_string = 'this is some content' 

How to go about this? The Python script will be placed inside a Linux box.

Answer 1

I think you're looking for this: http://docs.python.org/library/tempfile.html

import tempfile with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tmp:     print(tmp.name)     tmp.write(...) 

But:

Whether the name can be used to open the file a second time, while the named temporary file is still open, varies across platforms (it can be so used on Unix; it cannot on Windows NT or later).

If that is a concern for you:

import os, tempfile tmp = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) try:     print(tmp.name)     tmp.write(...) finally:     tmp.close()     os.unlink(tmp.name)