tempfile.TemporaryDirectory context manager in Python 2.7

Question

Is there a way to create a temporary directory in a context manager with Python 2.7?

with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:     # modify files in this dir  # here the temporary diretory does not exist any more. 

Answer 1

Another option is the "backports.tempfile" package on pypi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/backports.tempfile

Quoting the project's description: "This package provides backports of new features in Python’s tempfile module under the backports namespace."

Install with:

pip install backports.tempfile 

Then use it in your script:

from backports import tempfile with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir:     # modify files in this dir # here the temporary directory does not exist any more.