I agree -- as a user, it wasn't clear to me from looking at the documentation that mkdtemp was the right way to go to not delete directories. I had expected that NamedTemporaryDirectory would also support delete=False, just like NamedTemporaryFile.


Given that we say in the documentation that "mkstemp() and mkdtemp() are lower-level functions which require manual cleanup", it seems to make sense to allow Python users who don't care / know about mkstemp / mkdtemp to just use the more user-friendly NamedTemporaryDirectory / NamedTemporaryFile classes. This would make the language more accessible.

Would we be fine with reopening this issue so someone can contribute a patch?