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| author | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2013-08-13 23:28:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Victor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com> | 2013-08-13 23:28:28 (GMT) |
| commit | 97869103ba09fb6a468312d303193902ff13160a (patch) | |
| tree | fbb1a98f601ddc3eed85f2a0bd01f0e0ea884903 /Misc | |
| parent | 0c7907dd48968d492f50b774239954a6af1302d5 (diff) | |
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Close #12015: The tempfile module now uses a suffix of 8 random characters
instead of 6, to reduce the risk of filename collision. The entropy was reduced
when uppercase letters were removed from the charset used to generate random
characters.
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@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ Core and Builtins Library ------- +- Issue #12015: The tempfile module now uses a suffix of 8 random characters + instead of 6, to reduce the risk of filename collision. The entropy was + reduced when uppercase letters were removed from the charset used to generate + random characters. + - Issue #18585: Add :func:`textwrap.shorten` to collapse and truncate a piece of text to a given length. |