toudi/django-oldfiles

handy utility for removing old NamedTemporaryFile

django-oldfiles

handy utility for removing old NamedTemporaryFile

this django app is supposed to be used whenever you have to create a NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False) and want to limit how long should it be on the disk.

Usage

1. add 'oldfiles' into INSTALLED_APPS
2. issue a command: manage.py remove_old_files

Available settings

(To be put in your settings.py). You can use those settings to nicely bound with NamedTemporaryFile, like so:

from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
from oldfiles import settings as ofs
myfile = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False, dir=ofs.OLDFILES_DIR)

the reason behind importing the oldfiles settings module rather than django settings is that oldfiles's one will always have the non-null value. It is completely ok to pass None as dir parameter to NamedTemporaryFile constructor, but it is not ok to pass empty string to find command.

OLDFILES_DIR

the path which holds the files (defaults to /tmp)

OLDFILES_DELTA

how old must be the files to be got rid of (defaults to 1 hour)

OLDFILES_METHOD

how should be the files removed; possible values:

• find - use find command (should be faster)
• naive - use naive implementation (uses os.listdir under the hood)