trace_tempfile_mkdtemp <- function() { py_created_tempdirs <- NULL on_py_init <- function() { py_created_tempdirs <<- reticulate::py_run_string( local = TRUE, convert = FALSE, " def patch_mkdtemp(): from functools import wraps from os.path import abspath import tempfile created_tempdirs = [] og_mkdtemp = tempfile.mkdtemp @wraps(og_mkdtemp) def mkdtemp(*args, **kwargs): out = og_mkdtemp(*args, **kwargs) created_tempdirs.append(abspath(out)) return out tempfile.mkdtemp = mkdtemp return created_tempdirs ")$patch_mkdtemp() } if(reticulate::py_available()) on_py_init() else setHook("reticulate.onPyInit", on_py_init) function() py_created_tempdirs } get_py_created_tempdirs <- trace_tempfile_mkdtemp() clean_python_tempdirs <- function() { if(!reticulate::py_available()) # python never initialized, nothing to do return() python_temp_dir <- dirname(reticulate::py_run_string( "import tempfile; x=tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile().name", local = TRUE )$x) detritus <- list.files( path = python_temp_dir, pattern = "__autograph_generated_file|__pycache__", full.names = TRUE, all.files = TRUE ) unlink(detritus, recursive = TRUE, force = TRUE) unlink(unlist(py_to_r(get_py_created_tempdirs())), recursive = TRUE, force = TRUE) } withr::defer(clean_python_tempdirs(), teardown_env())