On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:52 PM, cool-RR
Hello, I noticed that the `TemporaryDirectory` context manager creates the folder on `__init__` rather than on `__enter__`, resulting in complexity, bugs, and hackarounds in `__del__`. I assume there's a good reason for this decision. What is it?
From the docstring: "This has the same behavior as mkdtemp but can be used as a context manager." Like files, it *can* be used as a context manager, but doesn't have to be.
Also, the complexity wouldn't go away even if the directory creation was delayed until the __enter__ invocation. People can still call __enter__ directly, so __del__ would still be obliged to try to clear things up as best it could. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia