Create and Use a Temporary File in Python

In this tutorial, we will introduce the way to create a temporary file in python, temporary file will be deleted if you close it.

1. Import library

from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile

2. Create a temporary file

f = NamedTemporaryFile('w+t')

4. Write text to temporary file

f.write('This is a temporary file.')

5. Get the temporary file name

print(f.name)

6. Read data from temporary file

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

# Read the file
data = f.read()
print(data)

7. Close temporary file, it will be deleted

f.close()

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