[Python-Dev] Remove tempfile.mktemp() (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Mar 19 10:29:17 EDT 2019

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:10:40 +0100 Stéphane Wirtel <stephane at wirtel.be> wrote:

totally agree with you but this function is deprecated (2002) since 2.3, with a simle comment about a security issue.

"Deprecated" doesn't mean anything here. It's just a mention in the documentation. It doesn't produce actual warnings when used. And for good reason: there are valid use cases.

so, from today to 3.9+ there are approximatively 43 months -> 3,5 years. I think it's enough in term of time for the big projects to improve their code.

Please explain how the "improvement" would look like. What is the intended replacement for the use case I have explained, and how does it improve on the statu quo?

And if there is an easy replacement, then how about re-implementing mktemp() using that replacement, instead of removing it?

Regards

Antoine.

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