How to create a self-deleting temporary directory in Python

Starting from Python 3.2 your can use tmpfile.TemporaryDirectory like this:

from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory

with TemporaryDirectory(prefix="myapp-") as tmpdir:
    print(tmpdir) # e.g. "/tmp/myapp-fevhzh93"

# Once you are outside the "with" block, the directory will be deleted!

In case you are stuck with using older Python versions, check out How to create temporary directory in Python.