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News about the tempfile rewrite.

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Guido van Rossum 2002-08-09 17:16:30 +00:00
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@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ Type/class unification and new-style classes
Core and builtins
- The tempfile module has been overhauled for enhanced security. The
mktemp() function is now deprecated; new, safe replacements are
mkstemp() (for files) and mkdtemp() (for directories), and the
higher-level functions NamedTemporaryFile() and TemporaryFile().
Use of some global variables in this module is also deprecated; the
new functions have keyword arguments to provide the same
functionality. All Lib, Tools and Demo modules that used the unsafe
interfaces have been updated to use the safe replacements. Thanks
to Zack Weinberg!
- When x is an object whose class implements __mul__ and __rmul__,
1.0*x would correctly invoke __rmul__, but 1*x would erroneously
invoke __mul__. This was due to the sequence-repeat code in the int