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I recently wrote a script which queries PyPI and downloads a package; however, the package gets downloaded to a user defined folder.
I`d like to modify the script in such a way that my downloaded files go into a temporary folder, if the folder is not specified.
The temporary-files folder in *nix machines is “/tmp” ; would there be any Python method I could use to find out the temporary-files folder in a particular machine?
If not, could someone suggest an alternative to this problem?
Python has a built-in module for using temporary files and folders. You probably want
tempfile.mkdtemp().