import os
os.tmpnam()
RuntimeWarning: tmpnam is a potential security risk to your program
Are these runtime warnings necessary? Suppressing these warnings is a pita for
one-off uses of os.tmpnam() or os.tempnam().
I would hate for this sort of thing to propagate throughout the standard library. Some folks think eval() should never be used and
the same for input(). Some folks think md5 should be removed. Some folks think pickles are the ultimate security threat. IMO, it
is enough to note potential vulnerabilities in the docs. Even then, I'm not too keen on the docs being filled with lots of
red-outlined pink-boxed warning signs, effectively communicating that Python itself is dangerous and unreliable.
Raymond
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