How to set tempfile.tmpdir?

[Andres Corrada-Emmanuel]

Hi,

I'm trying to use tempfile to generate a temporary filename in the
directory of my chossing. I thought that this would work:

import tempfile

tempfile.tmpdir = '/my/path'
temp_name = tempfile.mktemp()

However, it doesn't. I'm working on SunOS and temp_name always comes back
with /tmp/some_unique_identifier.

What am I doing wrong?

Andres Corrada-Emmanuel
Senior Research Fellow
Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval
University of Massachusetts, Amherst