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merged 9 commits into from
Oct 30, 2020
22 changes: 10 additions & 12 deletions Lib/tempfile.py
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Expand Up @@ -129,24 +129,22 @@ class _RandomNameSequence:

_RandomNameSequence is an iterator."""

characters = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_"

@property
def rng(self):
cur_pid = _os.getpid()
if cur_pid != getattr(self, '_rng_pid', None):
self._rng = _Random()
self._rng_pid = cur_pid
return self._rng
def __init__(self, characters="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789_", length=8, rng=None):
if rng is None:
rng = _Random()
if hasattr(_os, "fork"):
# prevent same state after fork
_os.register_at_fork(after_in_child=rng.seed)
self.rng = rng
self.characters = characters
self.length = length

def __iter__(self):
return self

def __next__(self):
c = self.characters
choose = self.rng.choice
letters = [choose(c) for dummy in range(8)]
return ''.join(letters)
return ''.join(self.rng.choices(c, k=self.length))

def _candidate_tempdir_list():
"""Generate a list of candidate temporary directories which
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Lib/test/test_tempfile.py
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Expand Up @@ -153,8 +153,8 @@ def setUp(self):
self.r = tempfile._RandomNameSequence()
super().setUp()

def test_get_six_char_str(self):
# _RandomNameSequence returns a six-character string
def test_get_eight_char_str(self):
# _RandomNameSequence returns a eight-character string
s = next(self.r)
self.nameCheck(s, '', '', '')

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Replaced pid check in ``tempfile._RandomNameSequence`` with ``os.register_at_fork`` to reduce overhead.