The CORRECT way to work with temporary files in Python

Опубликовано: 03 Март 2025
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Working with temporary files can be a must in certain situations, but are you working with them correctly? If not, you're opening yourself up to security vulnerabilities. In this video, we'll be using the `tempfile` module to create temporary files easily and securely!

00:00 - Intro [1]
01:01 - Creating a named temporary file [2]
04:13 - Creating a temporary directory [3]
04:57 - Creating a temp file within a temp directory
06:05 - Other interfaces in the tempfile module
07:25 - Using this with a Pytest fixture [4-5]

[1] https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definition...
[2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/tem...
[3] https://docs.python.org/3/library/tem...
[4] https://alembic.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest
[5] https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable

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