[Python-Dev] Remove tempfile.mktemp() (original) (raw)
Giampaolo Rodola' g.rodola at gmail.com
Tue Mar 19 12:41:28 EDT 2019
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 3:57 PM Antoine Pitrou <antoine at python.org> wrote:
Le 19/03/2019 à 15:52, Guido van Rossum a écrit : > > If all you need is a random name, why not just use a random number > generator? > E.g. I see code like this: > > binascii.hexlify(os.urandom(8)).decode('ascii') mktemp() already does this, probably in a better way, including the notion of prefix, suffix, and parent directory. Why should I have to reimplement it myself?
On top of that mktemp() tries exists() in a loop, diminishing the risk of names collision.
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