cf.TEMPDIR

cf.TEMPDIR(*arg)

The directory for internally generated temporary files.

When setting the directory, it is created if the specified path does not exist.

Parameters:

arg : str, optional

The new directory for temporary files. Tilde expansion (an initial component of ~ or ~user is replaced by that user’s home directory) and environment variable expansion (substrings of the form $name or ${name} are replaced by the value of environment variable name) are applied to the new directory name.

The default is to not change the directory.

Returns:

out: str

The directory prior to the change, or the current directory if no new value was specified.

Examples:

>>> cf.TEMPDIR()
'/tmp'
>>> old = cf.TEMPDIR('/home/me/tmp')
>>> cf.TEMPDIR(old)
'/home/me/tmp'
>>> cf.TEMPDIR()
'/tmp'