[issue16879] distutils.command.config uses fragile constant temporary file name

Steve Dower added the comment: Distutils is now deprecated (see PEP 632) and all tagged issues are being closed. From now until removal, only release blocking issues will be considered for distutils. If this issue does not relate to distutils, please remove the component and reopen it. If

[issue16879] distutils.command.config uses fragile constant temporary file name

Amir Mohamadi added the comment: Can I open a PR for it? -- nosy: +Amir ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue16879] distutils.command.config uses fragile constant temporary file name

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[issue16879] distutils.command.config uses fragile constant temporary file name

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[issue16879] distutils.command.config uses fragile constant temporary file name

Change by Irit Katriel : -- versions: +Python 3.10, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 -Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue16879] distutils.command.config uses fragile constant temporary file name

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[issue16879] distutils.command.config uses fragile constant temporary file name

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the report. Did you find this by looking at the code or while using distutils? In other words, if this is just a theoretical issue / code quality problem, it won’t be changed. (distutils is not improved anymore.) -- versions: +Python 3.4

[issue16879] distutils.command.config uses fragile constant temporary file name

Michał Górny added the comment: While using. We run parallel merges with out-of-source builds in Gentoo, and I found this to result in a failure when building the 'egenix-mx-base' package [1] which uses the 'config' command. [1]:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/egenix-mx-base --

[issue16879] distutils.command.config uses fragile constant temporary file name

New submission from Michał Górny: The distutils.command.config module reads: def _gen_temp_sourcefile(self, body, headers, lang): filename = _configtest + LANG_EXT[lang] which means that every time one of the functions is used, a temporary file with the same name will be created.