Deal with unicode usernames in python mkdtemp

Question

I was bitten by http://bugs.python.org/issue1681974 - quoting from there:

mkdtemp fails on Windows if Windows user name has any non-ASCII characters,

Answer 1

I finally went with:

sys_fs_enc = sys.getfilesystemencoding() or 'mbcs'

@staticmethod
def tempDir(prefix=None):
    try: # workaround for http://bugs.python.org/issue1681974 see there
        return tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix=prefix)
    except UnicodeDecodeError:
        try:
            traceback.print_exc()
            print 'Trying to pass temp dir in...'
            tempdir = unicode(tempfile.gettempdir(), sys_fs_enc)
            return tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix=prefix, dir=tempdir)
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            try:
                traceback.print_exc()
                print 'Trying to encode temp dir prefix...'
                return tempfile.mkdtemp(
                    prefix=prefix.encode(sys_fs_enc)).decode(sys_fs_enc)
            except:
                traceback.print_exc()
                print 'Failed to create tmp dir, Bash will not function ' \
                      'correctly.'

Apparently the first try catch is sufficient but I left the tracebacks in so I can get some more input ;)