Is tempfile.mkdtemp() thread-safe?

[Gabriel Rossetti]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:22:33 +0200, Gabriel Rossetti
> <gabriel.rossetti at arimaz.com> declaimed the following in
> comp.lang.python:
>
>   
>> have a solution? I have to create unique and temp. directories to use an 
>> external program that creates a temp. file with the same name every 
>> time, thus if I want to call it from several threads, each call has to 
>> be from a different directory.
>>
>>     
> 	Have you considered passing in the ID (string-formatted) of the
> thread itself as a parameter (suffix)?
>   
No, that's a very good idea... you mean with the id() builtin function 
correct? I'll try that, then. But if it's really not thread-safe, then 
it will still return the same tmp dir to both calls.


No, that's a very good idea... you mean with the id() builtin function 
correct? I'll try that, thanl