[Python-Dev] Remove tempfile.mktemp()

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Mar 20 10:22:31 EDT 2019


On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:25:53 +1300
Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> > Does it always work? According to the docs, """Whether the name can be
> > used to open the file a second time, while the named temporary file is
> > still open, varies across platforms  
> 
> So use NamedTemporaryFile(delete = False) and close it before passing
> it to the other program.

How is it more secure than using mktemp()?

Regards

Antoine.




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