On Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 15:13 eryk sun, <eryksun@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 9:17 PM, Jeremy Kloth <jeremy.kloth@gmail.com> wrote:
*PLEASE*, don't use tempfile to create files/directories in tests. It is unfriendly to (Windows) buildbots. The current approach of directory-per-process ensures no test turds are left behind, whereas the tempfile solution slowly fills up my buildbot. Windows doesn't natively clean out the temp directory.
FYI, Windows 10 storage sense (under system->storage) can be configured to delete temporary files on a schedule. Of course that doesn't help with older systems.
If Windows doesn't clean up its temp directory on a regular basis then that doesn't suggest to me not to use tempfile, but instead that the use of tempfile still needs to clean up after itself. And if there is a lacking feature in tempfile then we should add it instead of a avoiding the module. -Brett _______________________________________________
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