Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> writes: > Unfortunately, tempfile.mktemp() is described as deprecated since 2.3 > (though appears to still exist in the 3.4.2 that is the default Py3 on > Debian Stable). While the deprecation notice says "In version 2.3 of > Python, this module was overhauled for enhanced security. It now > provides three new functions, NamedTemporaryFile(), mkstemp(), and > mkdtemp(), which should eliminate all remaining need to use the > insecure mktemp() function", as best I can tell, all of the other > functions/objects in the tempfile module return a file object, not a > string suitable for passing to link().
The problem you describe is that ‘tmpfile.mktemp’ is deprecated, but there is no other supported standard-library API which does its job. I reported this – for a different use case – in issue26362 [0] <URL:https://bugs.python.org/issue26362>. The suggested solutions in the documentation do not address the use case described there; and they do not address the use case you've described here either. Would you be kind enough to update that issue with a description of your use case as well? [0] The issue currently has a message from me, over a year ago, saying that I will “work on a patch soon”. I'd welcome someone else taking that job. -- \ “Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are | `\ in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.” | _o__) —Ernestine Rose | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
