Have we documented the alternatives well enough? In most cases NamedTemporaryFile will work, but sometimes you will have to create a directory and pick names therein. Doing that so that it will always be cleaned up properly is a bit of a trick, involving an isdir() check and a shutil.rmtree() call.
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 3:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Back in r29829, Guido commented out the security hole warning for > tempfile.mktemp: > > r29829 | gvanrossum | 2002-11-22 09:56:29 -0600 (Fri, 22 Nov 2002) | 3 > lines > > Comment out the warnings about mktemp(). These are too annoying, and > often unavoidable. > > Any thought about whether this warning should be restored? We're 5+ years > later. Hopefully many uses of mktemp have been removed. If we're not going > to restore the warning perhaps the commented code should just be deleted. > > Skip > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
