New submission from Alexander Steppke :
The tempfile module shows strange behavior under certain conditions. This might
lead to data leaking or other problems.
The test session looks as follows:
Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "
Alexander Steppke added the comment:
Hi David,
I followed your suggestion and tried to reproduce the problem without the
tempfile module. It turns out that is indeed an underlying issue. I am not sure
what the root cause is but now this is even a bigger problem: read() returns
information
Changes by Alexander Steppke :
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components: +IO
title: Bug in tempfile module -> Bug in file.read(), can access unknown data.
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Alexander Steppke added the comment:
Additionally after calling tmp.close() the file 'tmp' contains the string
'test', which is followed by about 4kB of binary data similar to the previous
output of tmp.read().
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Alexander Steppke added the comment:
Thank you for the update Victor. It seems to me that this is exactly the same
issue.
At the moment the current documentation says
(http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#bltin-file-objects):
"Note: This function is simply a wrapper fo
