[Python-Dev] Warn about mktemp once again?

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Wed May 7 17:36:55 CEST 2008


> On win32 it will usually (but not always) provide a file name in a directory
> writeable only by the current user.

OS X 10.5 also does this.

>>> import tempfile
>>> tempfile.mktemp()
'/var/folders/Ru/RuapMUan2RWWJ++1YwBnRU++0T6/-Tmp-/tmpjjkKha'
>>> os.system("ls -dl /var/folders/Ru/RuapMUan2RWWJ++1YwBnRU++0T6/-Tmp-")
drwx------  2 wjanssen  100  68 May  7 08:34 /var/folders/Ru/RuapMUan2RWWJ++1YwBnRU++0T6/-Tmp-
0
>>> 

Bill


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