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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def tmpdir(self):
 """ Temporary directory holding all the runtime data. """

        if self._tmpdir is None:
            self._tmpdir = mkdtemp(prefix="colin-", dir="/var/tmp")
        return self._tmpdir