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

David Harrison dave.l.harrison at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 11:58:39 CEST 2008

2008/4/29 "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>:

> Same here. In fact, is there a good reason to have mkstemp() return the > fd (except backward compatibility)?

Except for backwards compatibility: is there a good reason to keep os.mkstemp at all?

Greg Ewing's use-case is one I've also had at times - ie. as a convenience function for creating a "somewhat temporary" file that is randomly named, but persists beyond the closing of the file. If the function doesn't stay in os it doesn't make any difference to me though :-)

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