[issue1681974] mkdtemp fails on Windows if username has non-ASCII character

Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Ubik: this issue is closed, as we believe that it does not exist anymore. If you still think there is a bug surrounding mkdtemp, please make a new full bug report. Structure your report as follows: 1. this is what you did 2. this is what happened 3. this is w

[issue1681974] mkdtemp fails on Windows if username has non-ASCII character

STINNER Victor added the comment: The best fix is to use Python 3. In 2015, it's maybe time to use Python 3 which has a very good Unicode support. -- nosy: +haypo ___ Python tracker _

[issue1681974] mkdtemp fails on Windows if username has non-ASCII character

Ubik added the comment: As detailed in this SO question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28101187/deal-with-unicode-usernames-in-python-mkdtemp I still see the issue in 2.7.8. I use a unicode prefix and changing this is not an option (editing legacy code which expects unicode everywhere)

[issue1681974] mkdtemp fails on Windows if username has non-ASCII character

Ezio Melotti added the comment: On Win 7 with a non-ASCII username, this seems to work fine on both 2.7 and 3.3. 2.7 returns str or unicode depending on the type of the "prefix=", whereas 3.3 only accepts str (I think this is expected). I'm going to close this as out of date, feel free to reo

[issue1681974] mkdtemp fails on Windows if username has non-ASCII character

Mark Lawrence added the comment: I can't reproduce this problem on Windows Vista with any of the current maintainance branches of Python using the interactive prompt from the command line. -- nosy: +BreamoreBoy ___ Python tracker

[issue1681974] mkdtemp fails on Windows if username has non-ASCII character

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[issue1681974] mkdtemp fails on Windows if username has non-ASCII character

Markus Niemistö added the comment: Well, it's not me. As I stated in the problem description, Windows (2000 at least) uses path c:\documents and settings\\local settings\temp as default temp dir, where also python tries to make temp dirs. Now for example if user name is "niemistö", then the temp

[issue1681974] mkdtemp fails on Windows if username has non-ASCII character

Georg Brandl added the comment: Why are you using a unicode string as your temp directory prefix? Does it raise something different if you don't? -- assignee: -> loewis nosy: +loewis ___ Python tracker

[issue1681974] mkdtemp fails on Windows if username has non-ASCII character

Changes by Daniel Diniz : -- components: +Windows stage: -> test needed type: -> behavior versions: +Python 2.6 -Python 2.5 ___ Python tracker ___ ___