reading and writing files temporary files during the execution of many applications it may be necessary to create temporary file that will be created at one point and deleted before the application finishes it is of course possible to manage such temporary files yourself howeverthe tempfile module provides range of facilities to simplify the creation and management of these temporary files within the tempfile module temporaryfilenamedtemporaryfiletemporarydirectoryand spooledtemporaryfile are high-level file objects which provide automatic cleanup of temporary files and directories these objects implement the context manager protocol the tempfile module also provides the lower-level function mkstemp(and mkdtemp(that can be used to create temporary files that require the developer to management them and delete them at an appropriate time the high-level feature for the tempfile module aretemporaryfile(mode=' + 'return an anonymous file-like object that can be used as temporary storage area on completion of the managed context (via with statementor destruction of the file objectthe temporary file will be removed from the filesystem note that by default all data is written to the temporary file in binary format which is generally more efficient namedtemporaryfile(mode=' + 'this function operates exactly as temporaryfile(doesexcept that the file has visible name in the file system spooledtemporaryfile(max_size= mode=' + 'this function operates exactly as temporaryfile(doesexcept that data is spooled in memory until the file size exceeds max_sizeor until the file' fileno (method is calledat which point the contents are written to disk and operation proceeds as with temporaryfile(temporarydirectory(suffix=noneprefix=nonedir=nonethis function creates temporary directory on completion of the context or destruction of the temporary directory object the newly created temporary directory and all its contents are removed from the filesystem the lower level functions includemkstemp(creates temporary file that is only readable or writable by the user who created it mkdtemp(creates temporary directory the directory is readablewritableand searchable only by the creating user id gettempdir(return the name of the directory used for temporary files this defines the default value for the default temporary directory to be used with the other functions in this module an example of using the temporaryfile function is given below this code imports the tempfile module then prints out the default directory used for