"""Temporary files. This module provides generic, low- and high-level interfaces for creating temporary files and directories. The interfaces listed as "safe" just below can be used without fear of race conditions. Those listed as "unsafe" cannot, and are provided for backward compatibility only. This module also provides some data items to the user: TMP_MAX - maximum number of names that will be tried before giving up. template - the default prefix for all temporary names. You may change this to control the default prefix. tempdir - If this is set to a string before the first use of any routine from this module, it will be considered as another candidate location to store temporary files. """ __all__ = [ "NamedTemporaryFile", "TemporaryFile", # high level safe interfaces "mkstemp", "mkdtemp", # low level safe interfaces "mktemp", # deprecated unsafe interface "TMP_MAX", "gettempprefix", # constants "tempdir", "gettempdir" ] # Imports. import os as _os import errno as _errno from random import Random as _Random if _os.name == 'mac': import macfs as _macfs import MACFS as _MACFS try: import fcntl as _fcntl def _set_cloexec(fd): flags = _fcntl.fcntl(fd, _fcntl.F_GETFD, 0) if flags >= 0: # flags read successfully, modify flags |= _fcntl.FD_CLOEXEC _fcntl.fcntl(fd, _fcntl.F_SETFD, flags) except (ImportError, AttributeError): def _set_cloexec(fd): pass try: import thread as _thread _allocate_lock = _thread.allocate_lock except (ImportError, AttributeError): class _allocate_lock: def acquire(self): pass release = acquire _text_openflags = _os.O_RDWR | _os.O_CREAT | _os.O_EXCL if hasattr(_os, 'O_NOINHERIT'): _text_openflags |= _os.O_NOINHERIT if hasattr(_os, 'O_NOFOLLOW'): _text_openflags |= _os.O_NOFOLLOW _bin_openflags = _text_openflags if hasattr(_os, 'O_BINARY'): _bin_openflags |= _os.O_BINARY if hasattr(_os, 'TMP_MAX'): TMP_MAX = _os.TMP_MAX else: TMP_MAX = 10000 if _os.name == 'nt': template = '~t' # cater to eight-letter limit else: template = "tmp" tempdir = None # Internal routines. _once_lock = _allocate_lock() def _once(var, initializer): """Wrapper to execute an initialization operation just once, even if multiple threads reach the same point at the same time. var is the name (as a string) of the variable to be entered into the current global namespace. initializer is a callable which will return the appropriate initial value for variable. It will be called only if variable is not present in the global namespace, or its current value is None. Do not call _once from inside an initializer routine, it will deadlock. """ vars = globals() lock = _once_lock # Check first outside the lock. if var in vars and vars[var] is not None: return try: lock.acquire() # Check again inside the lock. if var in vars and vars[var] is not None: return vars[var] = initializer() finally: lock.release() class _RandomNameSequence: """An instance of _RandomNameSequence generates an endless sequence of unpredictable strings which can safely be incorporated into file names. Each string is six characters long. Multiple threads can safely use the same instance at the same time. _RandomNameSequence is an iterator.""" characters = ( "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" + "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" + "0123456789-_") def __init__(self): self.mutex = _allocate_lock() self.rng = _Random() self.normcase = _os.path.normcase def __iter__(self): return self def next(self): m = self.mutex c = self.characters r = self.rng try: m.acquire() letters = ''.join([r.choice(c), r.choice(c), r.choice(c), r.choice(c), r.choice(c), r.choice(c)]) finally: m.release() return self.normcase(letters) def _candidate_tempdir_list(): """Generate a list of candidate temporary directories which _get_default_tempdir will try.""" dirlist = [] # First, try the environment. for envname in 'TMPDIR', 'TEMP', 'TMP': dirname = _os.getenv(envname) if dirname: dirlist.append(dirname) # Failing that, try OS-specific locations. if _os.name == 'mac': try: refnum, dirid = _macfs.FindFolder(_MACFS.kOnSystemDisk, _MACFS.kTemporaryFolderType, 1) dirname = _macfs.FSSpec((refnum, dirid, '')).as_pathname() dirlist.append(dirname) except _macfs.error: pass elif _os.name == 'riscos': dirname = _os.getenv('Wimp$ScrapDir') if dirname: dirlist.append(dirname) elif _os.name == 'nt': dirlist.extend([ r'c:\temp', r'c:\tmp', r'\temp', r'\tmp' ]) else: dirlist.extend([ '/tmp', '/var/tmp', '/usr/tmp' ]) # As a last resort, the current directory. try: dirlist.append(_os.getcwd()) except (AttributeError, _os.error): dirlist.append(_os.curdir) return dirlist def _get_default_tempdir(): """Calculate the default directory to use for temporary files. This routine should be called through '_once' (see above) as we do not want multiple threads attempting this calculation simultaneously. We determine whether or not a candidate temp dir is usable by trying to create and write to a file in that directory. If this is successful, the test file is deleted. To prevent denial of service, the name of the test file must be randomized.""" namer = _RandomNameSequence() dirlist = _candidate_tempdir_list() flags = _text_openflags for dir in dirlist: if dir != _os.curdir: dir = _os.path.normcase(_os.path.abspath(dir)) # Try only a few names per directory. for seq in xrange(100): name = namer.next() filename = _os.path.join(dir, name) try: fd = _os.open(filename, flags, 0600) fp = _os.fdopen(fd, 'w') fp.write('blat') fp.close() _os.unlink(filename) del fp, fd return dir except (OSError, IOError), e: if e[0] != _errno.EEXIST: break # no point trying more names in this directory pass raise IOError, (_errno.ENOENT, ("No usable temporary directory found in %s" % dirlist)) def _get_candidate_names(): """Common setup sequence for all user-callable interfaces.""" _once('_name_sequence', _RandomNameSequence) return _name_sequence def _mkstemp_inner(dir, pre, suf, flags): """Code common to mkstemp, TemporaryFile, and NamedTemporaryFile.""" names = _get_candidate_names() for seq in xrange(TMP_MAX): name = names.next() file = _os.path.join(dir, pre + name + suf) try: fd = _os.open(file, flags, 0600) _set_cloexec(fd) return (fd, file) except OSError, e: if e.errno == _errno.EEXIST: continue # try again raise raise IOError, (_errno.EEXIST, "No usable temporary file name found") # User visible interfaces. def gettempprefix(): """Accessor for tempdir.template.""" return template def gettempdir(): """Accessor for tempdir.tempdir.""" _once('tempdir', _get_default_tempdir) return tempdir def mkstemp(suffix="", prefix=template, dir=gettempdir(), binary=1): """mkstemp([suffix, [prefix, [dir, [binary]]]]) User-callable function to create and return a unique temporary file. The return value is a pair (fd, name) where fd is the file descriptor returned by os.open, and name is the filename. If 'suffix' is specified, the file name will end with that suffix, otherwise there will be no suffix. If 'prefix' is specified, the file name will begin with that prefix, otherwise a default prefix is used. If 'dir' is specified, the file will be created in that directory, otherwise a default directory is used. If 'binary' is specified and false, the file is opened in binary mode. Otherwise, the file is opened in text mode. On some operating systems, this makes no difference. The file is readable and writable only by the creating user ID. If the operating system uses permission bits to indicate whether a file is executable, the file is executable by no one. The file descriptor is not inherited by children of this process. Caller is responsible for deleting the file when done with it. """ if binary: flags = _bin_openflags else: flags = _text_openflags return _mkstemp_inner(dir, prefix, suffix, flags) def mkdtemp(suffix="", prefix=template, dir=gettempdir()): """mkdtemp([suffix, [prefix, [dir]]]) User-callable function to create and return a unique temporary directory. The return value is the pathname of the directory. Arguments are as for mkstemp, except that the 'binary' argument is not accepted. The directory is readable, writable, and searchable only by the creating user. Caller is responsible for deleting the directory when done with it. """ names = _get_candidate_names() for seq in xrange(TMP_MAX): name = names.next() file = _os.path.join(dir, prefix + name + suffix) try: _os.mkdir(file, 0700) return file except OSError, e: if e.errno == _errno.EEXIST: continue # try again raise raise IOError, (_errno.EEXIST, "No usable temporary directory name found") def mktemp(suffix="", prefix=template, dir=gettempdir()): """mktemp([suffix, [prefix, [dir]]]) User-callable function to return a unique temporary file name. The file is not created. Arguments are as for mkstemp, except that the 'binary' argument is not accepted. This function is unsafe and should not be used. The file name refers to a file that did not exist at some point, but by the time you get around to creating it, someone else may have beaten you to the punch. """ from warnings import warn as _warn _warn("mktemp is a potential security risk to your program", RuntimeWarning, stacklevel=2) names = _get_candidate_names() for seq in xrange(TMP_MAX): name = names.next() file = _os.path.join(dir, prefix + name + suffix) if not _os.path.exists(file): return file raise IOError, (_errno.EEXIST, "No usable temporary filename found") class _TemporaryFileWrapper: """Temporary file wrapper This class provides a wrapper around files opened for temporary use. In particular, it seeks to automatically remove the file when it is no longer needed. """ def __init__(self, file, name): self.file = file self.name = name self.close_called = 0 def __getattr__(self, name): file = self.__dict__['file'] a = getattr(file, name) if type(a) != type(0): setattr(self, name, a) return a # NT provides delete-on-close as a primitive, so we don't need # the wrapper to do anything special. We still use it so that # file.name is useful (i.e. not "(fdopen)") with NamedTemporaryFile. if _os.name != 'nt': # Cache the unlinker so we don't get spurious errors at # shutdown when the module-level "os" is None'd out. Note # that this must be referenced as self.unlink, because the # name TemporaryFileWrapper may also get None'd out before # __del__ is called. unlink = _os.unlink def close(self): if not self.close_called: self.close_called = 1 self.file.close() self.unlink(self.name) def __del__(self): self.close() def NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+b', bufsize=-1, suffix="", prefix=template, dir=gettempdir()): """Create and return a temporary file. Arguments: 'prefix', 'suffix', 'dir' -- as for mkstemp. 'mode' -- the mode argument to os.fdopen (default "w+b"). 'bufsize' -- the buffer size argument to os.fdopen (default -1). The file is created as mkstemp() would do it. Returns a file object; the name of the file is accessible as file.name. The file will be automatically deleted when it is closed. """ bin = 'b' in mode if bin: flags = _bin_openflags else: flags = _text_openflags # Setting O_TEMPORARY in the flags causes the OS to delete # the file when it is closed. This is only supported by Windows. if _os.name == 'nt': flags |= _os.O_TEMPORARY (fd, name) = _mkstemp_inner(dir, prefix, suffix, flags) file = _os.fdopen(fd, mode, bufsize) return _TemporaryFileWrapper(file, name) if _os.name != 'posix': # On non-POSIX systems, assume that we cannot unlink a file while # it is open. TemporaryFile = NamedTemporaryFile else: def TemporaryFile(mode='w+b', bufsize=-1, suffix="", prefix=template, dir=gettempdir()): """Create and return a temporary file. Arguments: 'prefix', 'suffix', 'directory' -- as for mkstemp. 'mode' -- the mode argument to os.fdopen (default "w+b"). 'bufsize' -- the buffer size argument to os.fdopen (default -1). The file is created as mkstemp() would do it. Returns a file object. The file has no name, and will cease to exist when it is closed. """ bin = 'b' in mode if bin: flags = _bin_openflags else: flags = _text_openflags (fd, name) = _mkstemp_inner(dir, prefix, suffix, flags) try: _os.unlink(name) return _os.fdopen(fd, mode, bufsize) except: _os.close(fd) raise