From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 18:31:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Use $TMPDIR if it is set in the environment.
X-Git-Tag: v0.9.8~597
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cff3454effbe323b287f95d29329b70adfa22979;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Use $TMPDIR if it is set in the environment.
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diff --git a/Lib/tempfile.py b/Lib/tempfile.py
index a571f413ffa6..793c23f5d248 100644
--- a/Lib/tempfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tempfile.py
@@ -5,11 +5,16 @@ import path
 
 
 # Changeable parameters (by clients!)...
-# XXX Should the environment variable $TMPDIR override tempdir?
 
 tempdir = '/usr/tmp'
 template = '@'
 
+# Use environment variable $TMPDIR to override default tempdir.
+
+if posix.environ.has_key('TMPDIR'):
+	# XXX Could check that it's a writable directory...
+	tempdir = posix.environ['TMPDIR']
+
 
 # Counter for generating unique names