Volker Braun added the comment:
This has been fixed for Python-3.3 in #14693. Attached is a straightforward
Python-2.7.5 backport of the patch.
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file30304/hashlibfallbacks.patch
Volker Braun added the comment:
This is http://bugs.python.org/issue7105. The patch from there could easily be
backported, I think.
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Volker Braun added the comment:
> When is tempfile.mkdtemp ever missing
It was added in Python 2.3, in the dark ages before that there was only
tempfile.mktemp. Though I guess we can remove the fallback now...
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Volker Braun added the comment:
The fact that Python's own testsuite tripped over this proves that this is
subtle enough to merit some special handling.
1) It is not, and has never been, a good idea to run/compile anything off /tmp.
This isn't specific to Python, it is just common