from tempfile import TemporaryFile

with TemporaryFile('w+t') as f:
  # Read/write to the file
  f.write('Hello World\n')
  f.write('Testing\n')

  # Seek back to beginning and read the data
  f.seek(0)
  data = f.read()

# Temporary file is destroyed

f = TemporaryFile('w+t')
# Use the temporary file
...
f.close()
# File is destroyed

with TemporaryFile('w+t', encoding='utf-8', errors='ignore') as f:
  ...

from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile

with NamedTemporaryFile('w+t') as f:
  print('filename is:', f.name)
  ...

# File automatically destroyed

with NamedTemporaryFile('w+t', delete=False) as f:
  print('filename is:', f.name)
  ...

from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory

with TemporaryDirectory() as dirname:
  print('dirname is:', dirname)
  # Use the directory
  ...
# Directory and all contents destroyed

> import tempfile
> tempfile.mkstemp()
(3, '/var/folders/7W/7WZl5sfZEF0pljrEB1UMWE+++TI/-Tmp-/tmp7fefhv')
> tempfile.mkdtemp()
'/var/folders/7W/7WZl5sfZEF0pljrEB1UMWE+++TI/-Tmp-/tmp5wvcv6'
>

> tempfile.gettempdir()
'/var/folders/7W/7WZl5sfZEF0pljrEB1UMWE+++TI/-Tmp-'
>

> f = NamedTemporaryFile(prefix='mytemp', suffix='.txt', dir='/tmp')
> f.name
'/tmp/mytemp8ee899.txt'
>