No usable temporary directory found

Question

I am trying to find a temp directory , but when i am trying to get the directory using

tempfile.gettempdir()

it\'s giving me error of

Answer 1

I had the same issue on the Windows 7x64 machine. It was OK with disk space and permissions.

When I excecuted

tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='MyPrefix_')

manually in python console the directory %TEMP%\MyPrefix_xxxx was successfully created. But when I did the same from script I received the error IOError: [Errno 2] No usable temporary directory found in [...].

I solved the problem using dir parameter:

 # '.' is a default value for example
 tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix='MyPrefix_', dir=os.environ.get('TEMP', '.')) 

After that from script it worked well.