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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/tempfile.rst3
-rw-r--r--Lib/tempfile.py4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
index 19e1e7faaf..b714d0ff92 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
@@ -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
diff --git a/Lib/tempfile.py b/Lib/tempfile.py
index d381a25dd1..c39820e198 100644
--- a/Lib/tempfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tempfile.py
@@ -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)