Hello everyone!
A very common pattern when dealing with temporary files is code like this:
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir:
tmp_path = tmpdir.name
os.chmod(tmp_path)
os.foobar(tmp_path)
open(tmp_path).read(barquux)
PEP 519 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0519/) introduced the
concept of "path-like objects", objects that define a __fspath__()
method. Most of the standard library has been adapted so that the
functions accept path-like objects.
My proposal is to define __fspath__() for TemporaryDirectory and
NamedTemporaryFile so that we can pass those directly to the library
functions instead of having to use the .name attribute explicitely.
Thoughts? :-)
--
Antoine Pietri
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