[Python-Dev] Warn about mktemp once again? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Apr 29 07:15:11 CEST 2008

skip at pobox.com wrote:

Guido> Have we documented the alternatives well enough?

I suppose we could document explicitly how to use mkstemp() in place of mktemp(), but the difference in return value is fairly modest:

I'd like to see a variation of mkstemp() that returns a file object instead of a file descriptor, since that's what you really want most of the time. At least I always end up calling fdopen on it.

-- Greg

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