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()?
Martin v. Löwis added the comment:
os.tmpfile() is the only method that has no duplicate in tempfile.
Why do you say that? tempfile.mkstemp() does essentially the same
as os.tmpfile().
The promise of tempfile.mkstemp is also bogus for every OS except
Windows. IIRC only Windows supports
Christian Heimes added the comment:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
Christian can you revise your patch to also remove os.tmpfile per
Martin's request? Make sure unit tests and docs are fixed too.
I can do that for you. But I still believe that os.tmpfile() works
different than tempfile.mkstemp().
Guido van Rossum added the comment:
Christian can you revise your patch to also remove os.tmpfile per
Martin's request? Make sure unit tests and docs are fixed too.
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Guido van Rossum added the comment:
2007/10/25, Christian Heimes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I can do that for you. But I still believe that os.tmpfile() works
different than tempfile.mkstemp(). The former returns a file descriptor
of a file w/o directory entry and the later a file in
Changes by Christian Heimes:
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file8612/py3k_remove_os_tmp.patch
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Guido van Rossum added the comment:
Committed revision 58657.
Thanks!
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Martin v. Löwis added the comment:
Removing them because there is a replacement already is a better reason
than removing them because they give (bogus) warnings, so I'm -0 now.
As you say, tempfile is not any better from a security point of view in
the cases where tmpnam or tempnam would be
