[Python-Dev] Remove tempfile.mktemp()

Antoine Pitrou antoine at python.org
Tue Mar 19 10:57:15 EDT 2019


Le 19/03/2019 à 15:52, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
> 
> If all you need is a random name, why not just use a random number
> generator?
> E.g. I see code like this:
> 
>     binascii.hexlify(os.urandom(8)).decode('ascii')

mktemp() already does this, probably in a better way, including the
notion of prefix, suffix, and parent directory.  Why should I have to
reimplement it myself?

Regards

Antoine.


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