Commit 1f0e1f3c authored by Martin Panter's avatar Martin Panter

Issue #26261: Clarify NamedTemporaryFile name attribute vs file.name

parent 1c5e715d
......@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ The module defines the following user-callable items:
This function operates exactly as :func:`TemporaryFile` does, except that
the file is guaranteed to have a visible name in the file system (on
Unix, the directory entry is not unlinked). That name can be retrieved
from the :attr:`name` attribute of the file object. Whether the name can be
from the :attr:`name` attribute of the returned
file-like object. Whether the name can be
used to open the file a second time, while the named temporary file is
still open, varies across platforms (it can be so used on Unix; it cannot
on Windows NT or later). If *delete* is true (the default), the file is
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......@@ -533,8 +533,8 @@ def NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+b', buffering=-1, encoding=None,
The file is created as mkstemp() would do it.
Returns an object with a file-like interface; the name of the file
is accessible as file.name. The file will be automatically deleted
when it is closed unless the 'delete' argument is set to False.
is accessible as its 'name' attribute. The file will be automatically
deleted when it is closed unless the 'delete' argument is set to False.
"""
prefix, suffix, dir, output_type = _sanitize_params(prefix, suffix, dir)
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