Hi, I'd like to add to this bug report. Backports should provide new functionality while retaining compatibility with existing functionality. This module should provide the same API as tempfile itself.

@pjdelport would you be open to a PR for this?

Sure!

@techalchemy, perhaps you want to contribute your NamedTemporaryFile here ?

c.f. https://github.com/sarugaku/vistir/commits/master/src/vistir/backports/tempfile.py

Sure, it really just requires backports.weakref

This package already depends on backports.weakref, so that wont be problem.

Unfortunately, the maintainer of this package is unresponsive. I've had a fairly trivial PR (#4) open for 15 months and the maintainer has not responded.

@PiDelport, if you are reading this, I think the ideal solution would be if you could give someone else you trust access to PyPI packaging rights. Others will then be able to contribute. My PyPI username is the same as my github username, or you could transfer to someone who is known to maintain other useful backports packages (@jaraco?)

Apologies, and thanks for putting this back on my radar! I responded in PR #4.

OK, thanks @PiDelport, we're back in business.

See pypa/pipenv#3494 for a bug caused because it was assumed that this backport was reasonably complete.

@jayvdb: Thank you for the ping.