On Jan 15, 7:31 pm, "Justin C. Walker" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2009, at 19:02 , mabshoff wrote:
<SNIP>
> > Just use /tmp or DOT_SAGE/tmp, but create a directory in it so you
> > don't clobber other jobs of the same kind. It might be a good idea to
> > add some create_tmpdir() command in Sage that is guaranteed to be
> > unique and is in a writable directory, i.e. it should first try
> > DOT_SAGE/tmp, then /tmp and so on. IIRC there is even some env
> > variable where we can point a per user tmp dir to. So you might want
> > to open a ticket for the above in order to avoid various people doing
> > the same thing in their own code over and over again.
>
> Python has several calls to make temporary files that will not be
> clobbered by other users or uses. No need to make directories.
Yes, but we are ending up calling command line tools which to not obey
Python's convention :)
And having all the files in one directory makes debugging a lot easier
and it assures that you get rid of all files by just wiping the one
tmp directory.
> Justin
Cheers,
Michael
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