[New-bugs-announce] [issue24944] traceback when using tempfile module on windows

[Hassan El Karouni]

New submission from Hassan El Karouni:

Python 2.7.6 (default, Nov 10 2013, 19:24:18) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> import tempfile
>>> tempfile.mkstemp()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Python27\lib\tempfile.py", line 308, in mkstemp
    return _mkstemp_inner(dir, prefix, suffix, flags)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\tempfile.py", line 240, in _mkstemp_inner
    _set_cloexec(fd)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\tempfile.py", line 50, in _set_cloexec
    flags = _fcntl.fcntl(fd, _fcntl.F_GETFD, 0)
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'F_GETFD'


On line 51 in tempfile.py, an AttributeError exception is not caught. The problem is caused by the fact that on Windows, the fcntl module is supposed not to exist, but in my case, a dummy module with the same name was put on the path. This means that line 50 is run thru when making the mkstemp() call.
The fix is to catch the AttributeError exception on line 51.
The bug might also affect Python 3 but this is to be checked.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 249228
nosy: Hassan El Karouni
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: traceback when using tempfile module on windows
type: crash
versions: Python 2.7

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