New submission from Roy Smith <r...@panix.com>: The docs (http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.1/lib/module-tempfile.html) specify that mkdtemp(), "returns the absolute pathname of the new directory". It does that in the default case, but if you specify a relative path for 'dir', you get back a relative path.
$ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Oct 17 2008, 14:39:09) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-10)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import tempfile >>> tempfile.mkdtemp(dir='.') './tmpHk1pBD' similar results were obtained on: Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Feb 6 2009, 19:02:12) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin Note that mkstemp() gets it right: >>> tempfile.mkdtemp(dir='.') './tmpoPXdL7' >>> tempfile.mkstemp(dir='.') (3, '/Users/roy2/tmpwTGZ2y') >>> ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 95256 nosy: roysmith severity: normal status: open title: tempfile.mkdtemp() does not return absolute pathname when dir is specified type: behavior versions: Python 2.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7325> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
