Christian Heimes added the comment: os.tmpfile() is the only method that has no duplicate in tempfile. I chose to keep it for this very reason. But you made good point, too. What do you think about renaming tmpfile to _tmpfile and make it available from the tempfile module as tempfile.tmpfile()?
I totally agree with your opinion on tmpnam and tempnam. As far as I know it's impossible to prevent a child process from doing something harmful. The child must be mature enough to do the right think and open a file with the correct flags. The promise of tempfile.mkstemp is also bogus for every OS except Windows. IIRC only Windows supports O_NOINHERIT. Let me rephrase the rational for my patch: I want to remove duplicate code to have just but one implementation to create a temporary file (name). I want the one implementation be under our control and not depend on some possible broken or stupid C library like Windows where tmpnam may create the temporary files in C:\. I want an unified way to get the TEMP dir independent of the API. __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1318> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
