[issue12015] possible characters in temporary file name is too few

Nick Coghlan report at bugs.python.org
Mon May 9 18:35:00 CEST 2011


Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

Basically, adding the uppercase letters back in would provide no gain in entropy on a case-insensitive filesystem (as the upper and lower case letters will collide). Increasing the length of the random sequence would provide a consistent gain regardless of filesystem properties.

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