bpo-42278: Use tempfile.TemporaryDirectory rather than tempfile.mktemp in pydoc (GH-23200) (GH-28025)

Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit c9227df)

Co-authored-by: E-Paine <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Lib/pydoc.py

@@ -1617,13 +1617,14 @@ def pipepager(text, cmd):
 def tempfilepager(text, cmd):
     """Page through text by invoking a program on a temporary file."""
     import tempfile
-    filename = tempfile.mktemp()
-    with open(filename, 'w', errors='backslashreplace') as file:
-        file.write(text)
-    try:
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tempdir:
+        filename = os.path.join(tempdir, 'pydoc.out')
+        with open(filename, 'w', errors='backslashreplace',
+                  encoding=os.device_encoding(0) if
+                  sys.platform == 'win32' else None
+                  ) as file:
+            file.write(text)
         os.system(cmd + ' "' + filename + '"')
-    finally:
-        os.unlink(filename)
 
 def _escape_stdout(text):
     # Escape non-encodable characters to avoid encoding errors later

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2021-08-29-12-39-44.bpo-42278.jvmQz_.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Replaced usage of :func:`tempfile.mktemp` with
+:class:`~tempfile.TemporaryDirectory` to avoid a potential race condition.