From ce81e61ba419069cde4e6f4e72c059ba835424f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mukunda katta <mukunda.vjcs6@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 07:50:05 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Use user cache directory for tiktoken downloads

---
 tests/test_misc.py | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tiktoken/load.py   | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tests/test_misc.py b/tests/test_misc.py
index 0832c8ee..0f4a03a8 100644
--- a/tests/test_misc.py
+++ b/tests/test_misc.py
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
+import hashlib
+import os
+import stat
 import subprocess
 import sys
 
 import tiktoken
+import tiktoken.load
 
 
 def test_encoding_for_model():
@@ -28,3 +32,30 @@ def test_optional_blobfile_dependency():
 assert "blobfile" not in sys.modules
 """
     subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, "-c", prog])
+
+
+def test_default_cache_dir_is_user_specific(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    data = b"token data"
+    expected_hash = hashlib.sha256(data).hexdigest()
+    blobpath = "https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/encodings/example.tiktoken"
+    cache_key = hashlib.sha1(blobpath.encode()).hexdigest()
+
+    monkeypatch.delenv("TIKTOKEN_CACHE_DIR", raising=False)
+    monkeypatch.delenv("DATA_GYM_CACHE_DIR", raising=False)
+    monkeypatch.setenv("XDG_CACHE_HOME", str(tmp_path / "xdg-cache"))
+    monkeypatch.setattr(tiktoken.load, "read_file", lambda _: data)
+
+    assert tiktoken.load.read_file_cached(blobpath, expected_hash) == data
+
+    cache_dir = tmp_path / "xdg-cache" / "tiktoken"
+    assert (cache_dir / cache_key).read_bytes() == data
+    assert not (tmp_path / "data-gym-cache").exists()
+
+    def fail_read_file(_: str) -> bytes:
+        raise AssertionError("cached file was not used")
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(tiktoken.load, "read_file", fail_read_file)
+    assert tiktoken.load.read_file_cached(blobpath, expected_hash) == data
+
+    if os.name != "nt":
+        assert stat.S_IMODE(cache_dir.stat().st_mode) == 0o700
diff --git a/tiktoken/load.py b/tiktoken/load.py
index 3c76bcb3..a9e8a5f0 100644
--- a/tiktoken/load.py
+++ b/tiktoken/load.py
@@ -5,6 +5,19 @@
 import os
 
 
+def _default_cache_dir() -> str:
+    if os.name == "nt":
+        cache_home = os.environ.get("LOCALAPPDATA")
+        if cache_home is None:
+            cache_home = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), "AppData", "Local")
+    else:
+        cache_home = os.environ.get("XDG_CACHE_HOME")
+        if cache_home is None:
+            cache_home = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".cache")
+
+    return os.path.join(cache_home, "tiktoken")
+
+
 def read_file(blobpath: str) -> bytes:
     if "://" not in blobpath:
         with open(blobpath, "rb", buffering=0) as f:
@@ -39,9 +52,7 @@ def read_file_cached(blobpath: str, expected_hash: str | None = None) -> bytes:
     elif "DATA_GYM_CACHE_DIR" in os.environ:
         cache_dir = os.environ["DATA_GYM_CACHE_DIR"]
     else:
-        import tempfile
-
-        cache_dir = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "data-gym-cache")
+        cache_dir = _default_cache_dir()
         user_specified_cache = False
 
     if cache_dir == "":
@@ -73,7 +84,9 @@ def read_file_cached(blobpath: str, expected_hash: str | None = None) -> bytes:
     import uuid
 
     try:
-        os.makedirs(cache_dir, exist_ok=True)
+        os.makedirs(cache_dir, mode=0o700, exist_ok=True)
+        if not user_specified_cache:
+            os.chmod(cache_dir, 0o700)
         tmp_filename = cache_path + "." + str(uuid.uuid4()) + ".tmp"
         with open(tmp_filename, "wb") as f:
             f.write(contents)