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> But that will also fail if id(path) happens to be fairly
> deterministic
Well, if you always get the same id(path), then yes, but I really doubt it, especially with CPython where it's the object's address (I guess there's the same chance of having varying IDs in other implementations):
"""
$ ./python -c "import io; print(id(io.__file__))"
3073909832
$ ./python -c "import io; print(id(io.__file__))"
3073963080
"""
In case of multiprocessing there was a collision because the import is done just after fork(), but the id() will likely change eventually.
If we wanted to be 100% bullet-proof, then we'll need something like mkstemp()/NamedTemporaryFile(), which we can't use because of bootstraping issues.
Of course, adding the PID won't hurt (except that it's a syscall, and will pollute strace's output ;-).