Ashwin Ramaswami <aramaswa...@gmail.com> added the comment:

I agree -- as a user, it wasn't clear to me from looking at the documentation 
that mkdtemp was the right way to go to not delete directories. I had expected 
that NamedTemporaryDirectory would also support delete=False, just like 
NamedTemporaryFile.


Given that we say in the documentation that "mkstemp() and mkdtemp() are 
lower-level functions which require manual cleanup", it seems to make sense to 
allow Python users who don't care / know about mkstemp / mkdtemp to just use 
the more user-friendly NamedTemporaryDirectory / NamedTemporaryFile classes. 
This would make the language more accessible.

Would we be fine with reopening this issue so someone can contribute a patch?

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