Title: Create A Temporary File
Slug: create_a_temporary_file
Summary: Create A Temporary File Using Python.
Date: 2017-02-02 12:00
Category: Python
Tags: Basics
Authors: Chris Albon

Preliminaries



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from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile

Create A Temporary File



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f = NamedTemporaryFile('w+t')

Write To The Temp File



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# Write to the file, the output is the number of characters
f.write('Nobody lived on Deadweather but us and the pirates. It wasn’t hard to understand why.')









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85

View The Tmp File's Name



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f.name









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'/var/folders/0b/pj3wsd750fjf8xzfb0n127w80000gn/T/tmphv1dkovx'

Read The File



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# Go to the top of the file
f.seek(0)

# Read the file
f.read()









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'Nobody lived on Deadweather but us and the pirates. It wasn’t hard to understand why.'

Close (And Thus Delete) The File



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f.close()