Temporary directory that isn't automatically removed

[MaddyGuthridge]

Currently, it appears to be impossible to create a temporary directory which isn't removed when the context manager exits. This is because the function equivalents of the standard library's tempfile.mkdtemp and similar do not exist in aiofiles.

I have tried to work around by doing things such as patching the context-managers __aexit__ method, but I have not managed to remove this auto-deletion functionality.

[rbasoalto]

tempfile.TemporaryDirectory added the delete param in 3.12, but its aiofiles counterpart doesn't have support for that (yet)

[ugoi]

When will support come? I'm trying to do this but getting error that the file doesn't exist. Seems like TemporaryDirectory is getting deleted before my FastAPI endpoint streams the file back as response. I don't know how this worked for the guy on stackoverflow. I then use tempfile directly and added delete=False and now it works.

StackOverflow

[MaddyGuthridge]

I've just been using asyncio.get_event_loop() and then loop.run_in_executor(...), which has worked well enough for my needs.

https://github.com/COMP1010UNSW/Markten/blob/main/markten/actions/__fs.py#L38

It's perhaps not ideal (unsure of the performance impacts), but I didn't notice any issues myself.