[ python-Bugs-1681974 ] mkdtemp fails on Windows if username has non-ASCII character

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Bugs item #1681974, was opened at 2007-03-16 10:03
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.5
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Markus Niemistö (niemisto)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: mkdtemp fails on Windows if username has non-ASCII character

Initial Comment:
mkdtemp fails miserably on Windows if Windows user name has any non-ASCII characters, like ä or ö, in it. mkdtemp throws an encoding error.

This seems to be because the default temp dir in Windows is "c:\documents and settings\<user name>\local settings\temp". Now if the user name has non-ASCII characters ASCII decoder cannot handle it and creating temp directories won't work.

As a work around I have used the following code:

tempdir = unicode(tempfile.gettempdir(), 'mbcs')
mkdtemp(suffix='foo', dir=tempdir)

This applies for both Python 2.4 and Python 2.5.

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>Comment By: Georg Brandl (gbrandl)
Date: 2007-03-21 11:42

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Could you indicate where exactly what error is raised?

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