Python 3.5+tempfilefunction

tempfile.gettempdirb()

directories and paths

The bytes version of gettempdir(): returns the temporary directory as bytes.

Syntax

tempfile.gettempdirb() -> bytes

Use it where paths are handled as bytes (os.listdir(b'...'), bytes arguments to mkstemp): mixing str and bytes in one os.path.join raises TypeError. Ordinary code only needs gettempdir(); the encoding goes through os.fsencode, so unusual characters in the path are not lost.

Examples

import os, tempfile
print(type(tempfile.gettempdirb()).__name__)  # → bytes
print(tempfile.gettempdirb() == os.fsencode(tempfile.gettempdir()))  # → True

See also

Common errors

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