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utils.mlabtemp

Module: utils.mlabtemp

Create matlab-compatible temporary files.

nipy.utils.mlabtemp.mlab_tempfile(dir=None)

Returns a temporary file-like object with valid matlab name.

The file name is accessible as the .name attribute of the returned object. The caller is responsible for closing the returned object, at which time the underlying file gets deleted from the filesystem.

Parameters:

dir : str

A path to use as the starting directory. Note that this directory must already exist, it is NOT created if it doesn’t (in that case, OSError is raised instead).

Returns:

f : A file-like object.

Examples

>>> f = mlab_tempfile()
>>> '-' not in f.name
True
>>> f.close()