Serhiy Storchaka

> mktemp is deprecated, and I think we will get rid of it when 2.7 will be out of use.

That's fine. This is not a request to retain ‘tempfile.mktemp’.

I confused matters in my initial message, so your confusion is understandable on this point. To repeat:

The request is for a “get the next path generated by a ‘tempfile._get_candidate_names’ generator”, with an approved and documented public API. One suggested name is ‘tempfile.makepath’.


> Do you want to add new deprecated from the start function?

No. I'm asking for already-implemented and currently-maintained (i.e. not deprecated) standard library code, that is currently neither public nor documented, to gain a public API.


Ethan Furman:

> I don't see any problem with this.  Patches welcome.

Thank you, I'll work on a patch soon.