[issue5178] Add content manager for temporary directory
New submission from Neil Schemenauer nas-pyt...@arctrix.com: I noticed that it would be nice to have a temporary directory context manager while trying to fix a broken unittest. The attached patch provides a pretty minimal implementation. There appears to be lots of unit tests that could use such a thing (just search for rmtree). I'm not sure if TemporaryDirectory is the best name. Also, perhaps it should have a __del__ method although that's tricky business. -- assignee: ncoghlan files: tempdir.patch keywords: patch messages: 81342 nosy: nascheme, ncoghlan severity: normal stage: patch review status: open title: Add content manager for temporary directory type: feature request Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12970/tempdir.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5178 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue5178] Add content manager for temporary directory
Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com added the comment: A __del__ method is definitely desirable (tempfile._TemporaryFileWrapper gives an example of how to cache the relevant globals on the class object to avoid attempting calls to None during interpreter shutdown). The new examples are good, but may give the misleading impression that TemporaryFile can't be used as a context manager (it can, and the file will be closed at the end of the with statement). A second file example showing it being used as a context manager would probably be helpful. There is also at least one existing contextlib based temp_dir context managers that could be replaced given the addition of this (i.e. in test_cmd_line_script.py, test_dir could be changed to a class that inherits from tempfile.TemporaryDirectory and overrides __enter__ to invoke realname() on the directory name). ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5178 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue5178] Add content manager for temporary directory
Changes by Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com: -- priority: - normal versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue5178 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
