I intend to add test for (existing dir)-(new file) collision in http://bugs.python.org/issue18849, but file-file, file-dir and dir-dir collisions are yet to be covered.

Do you want to submit a patch to add tests for these cases?

Probably yes, I'm just not sure when I'll get the time.

New changeset 63f25483c8f6 by Eli Bendersky in branch '3.3':
Issue #18945: Add tests for tempfile name collision handling.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/63f25483c8f6

New changeset c902ceaf7825 by Eli Bendersky in branch 'default':
Issue #18945: Add tests for tempfile name collision handling.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c902ceaf7825

Thanks Vlad, committed to 3.3/3.4; would you like to provide the 2.7 patch?

We don't generally backport tests unless they are part of a bug fix.  It's not a blanket prohibition, but normally the risk of false positives in a maintenance release on platforms not covered by our buildbots outweighs the benefits of adding the tests.

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 6:28 AM, R. David Murray <report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

>
> R. David Murray added the comment:
>
> We don't generally backport tests unless they are part of a bug fix.  It's
> not a blanket prohibition, but normally the risk of false positives in a
> maintenance release on platforms not covered by our buildbots outweighs the
> benefits of adding the tests.
>

These tests are very related to an actual bug-fix (
http://bugs.python.org/issue18849). Moreover, they cover a previously
uncovered feature which resulted in very intermittent heisen-bugs where
temp file creation was occasionally failing on some platforms. IMHO having
this covered is worth the small maintenance burden of the tests - who
knows, it may uncover real problems. What do you think?

If they are part of a bug fix, then sure.  That wasn't clear from this issue, though.  On the other hand, if the tests in that other issue cover the actual bug, and these have any chance of *introducing* test failures (especially if they are heisenburgs, although I'm assuming the point is that they are not), then I'd say no.  The issue with backporting tests isn't about "maintenance burden" (backporting tests actually makes the maintenance burden smaller, not larger).  The issue is potential effectively spurious test failures in the field in a maintenance release.

To put it another way: the right place to find test bugs is in a feature release, which we then fix in the next maintenance release.  We do *not* want to find test bugs in maintenance releases.

Benjamin, what do you think?

I don't object to adding the tests.

New changeset fa54069eb8c4 by Eli Bendersky in branch '2.7':
Close #18945: Add tests for tempfile name collision handling.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/fa54069eb8c4