Python and temporary files when moved to temp path they are not considered files anymore

We've created a temporary directory within a python function to move files into for processing:

with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as workdir:

temp_dir = Path(workdir)
print(temp_dir)

sub_odk_extract = urllib.request.urlretrieve(sub_odk_url, 'sub_odk.xlsx')
sub_odk = sub_odk_extract[0]
sub_odk_path = temp_dir / sub_odk
print('test: ', sub_odk_path, ' Path', isfile(sub_odk_path.read()))

the following print(temp_dir) is printing the path as:

> C:\Users\myUser\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp3efhg0aw

Also when we check if sub_odk is a file that was successfully extracted the returned value is true. Also we were able to test it out of the temporary folder successfully.

However when we move it to the temp folder as:

sub_odk_path = temp_dir / sub_odk

The sub_odk_path is not considered as a file as the result of the print is:

> test: C:\Users\myUser\AppData\Local\Temp\tmp3efhg0aw\sub_odk.xlsx
> Path False

How can we move any file into a temporary folder and do changes over it before the deletion of the temp folder.

In that last print function, it's not entirely clear what function you're calling with isfile(). Additionally, you're not passing a file to it, you're passing the return value of sub_odk_path.read(), which is most likely not going to be a file.

Since you're using pathlib, you can just use the Path.is_file() method.

print('test: ', sub_odk_path, ' Path', sub_odk_path.is_file())

Have you tried os.path.isfile(sub_odk_path) instead of isfile(...)