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I’m writing a Python library which needs to cache remote data on the local machine.
I would like to prevent the library from polluting the OS and placing temp files where they don’t belong. To use OS default temp folders seems a bit long winded as I would like to use one OS-Independent way of doing this.
Would storing cached files within the package folder work? Does the Python installation have a folder for temp files?
Help would be great! 🙂
Consider using
tempfile, see http://docs.python.org/library/tempfile.html