# Copyright 2016 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. # Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be # found in the LICENSE file. import contextlib import os import shutil import tempfile @contextlib.contextmanager def NamedTemporaryDirectory(suffix='', prefix='tmp', dir=None): """A context manager that manages a temporary directory. This is a context manager version of tempfile.mkdtemp. The arguments to this function are the same as the arguments for that one. This can be used to automatically manage the lifetime of a temporary file without maintaining an open file handle on it. Doing so can be useful in scenarios where a parent process calls a child process to create a temporary file and then does something with the resulting file. """ # This uses |dir| as a parameter name for consistency with mkdtemp. # pylint: disable=redefined-builtin d = tempfile.mkdtemp(suffix=suffix, prefix=prefix, dir=dir) try: yield d finally: shutil.rmtree(d) @contextlib.contextmanager def NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+b', suffix='', prefix='tmp'): """A conext manager to hold a named temporary file. It's similar to Python's tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile except: - The file is _not_ deleted when you close the temporary file handle, so you can close it and then use the name of the file to re-open it later. - The file *is* always deleted when exiting the context managed code. """ with NamedTemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir: yield tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile( mode=mode, suffix=suffix, prefix=prefix, dir=temp_dir, delete=False) @contextlib.contextmanager def TemporaryFileName(prefix='tmp', suffix=''): """A context manager to just get the path to a file that does not exist. The parent directory of the file is a newly clreated temporary directory, and the name of the file is just `prefix + suffix`. The file istelf is not created, you are in fact guaranteed that it does not exit. The entire parent directory, possibly including the named temporary file and any sibling files, is entirely deleted when exiting the context managed code. """ with NamedTemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir: yield os.path.join(temp_dir, prefix + suffix)