Is it possible to get the path of a tempfile in Python 3

Question

I was wondering if it was possible to get the file path of a temporary file made using the tempfile library. Basically, I\'m trying to make a function that intakes some data

Answer 1

Use tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile to create a temporary file with a name, and then use the .name attribute of the object.

Note that there are platform-specific limitations on how this name can be used. The documentation says:

Whether the name can be used to open the file a second time, while the named temporary file is still open, varies across platforms (it can be so used on Unix; it cannot on Windows NT or later).