On 06/08/2017 06:42 AM, Antoine Pietri wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> A very common pattern when dealing with temporary files is code like this:
>
>      with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir:
>          tmp_path = tmpdir.name
>
>          os.chmod(tmp_path)
>          os.foobar(tmp_path)
>          open(tmp_path).read(barquux)
>
> PEP 519 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0519/) introduced the
> concept of "path-like objects", objects that define a __fspath__()
> method. Most of the standard library has been adapted so that the
> functions accept path-like objects.
>
> My proposal is to define __fspath__() for TemporaryDirectory and
> NamedTemporaryFile so that we can pass those directly to the library
> functions instead of having to use the .name attribute explicitely.
>
> Thoughts? :-)

Good idea.  Check bugs.python.org to see if there is already an issue for this, and if not create one! :)