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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/tempfile.py | 30 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/tempfile.py b/Lib/tempfile.py index db750d4..f95920d 100644 --- a/Lib/tempfile.py +++ b/Lib/tempfile.py @@ -17,16 +17,26 @@ template = None # Function to calculate the directory to use def gettempdir(): - global tempdir - if tempdir == None: - try: - tempdir = os.environ['TMPDIR'] - except (KeyError, AttributeError): - if os.name == 'posix': - tempdir = '/usr/tmp' # XXX Why not /tmp? - else: - tempdir = os.getcwd() # XXX Is this OK? - return tempdir + global tempdir + attempdirs = ['/usr/tmp', '/tmp', os.getcwd(), os.curdir] + if os.environ.has_key('TMPDIR'): + attempdirs.insert(0, os.environ['TMPDIR']) + testfile = gettempprefix() + '-*-writetest-*-' + for dir in attempdirs: + try: + filename = os.path.join(dir, testfile) + fp = open(filename, 'w') + fp.write('blat') + fp.close() + os.unlink(filename) + tempdir = dir + break + except IOError: + pass + if tempdir is None: + msg = "Can't find a usable temporary directory amongst " + `attempdirs` + raise IOError, msg + return tempdir # Function to calculate a prefix of the filename to use |