From 6d6e82b8fa11e12f5d23fce2c08a9fa13139782f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rishav Kundu Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 07:03:14 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-41410: Fix outdated info in mkstemp docs (GH-21701) Automerge-Triggered-By: @ericvsmith (cherry picked from commit e55de68be3e5b977a17d3c0ac9805b0feff8fedc) Co-authored-by: Rishav Kundu --- Doc/library/tempfile.rst | 5 ++--- Lib/tempfile.py | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst index a59817c1039210..3a2b88c0cb6a20 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst @@ -175,9 +175,8 @@ The module defines the following user-callable items: If you want to force a bytes return value with otherwise default behavior, pass ``suffix=b''``. - If *text* is specified, it indicates whether to open the file in binary - mode (the default) or text mode. On some platforms, this makes no - difference. + If *text* is specified and true, the file is opened in text mode. + Otherwise, (the default) the file is opened in binary mode. :func:`mkstemp` returns a tuple containing an OS-level handle to an open file (as would be returned by :func:`os.open`) and the absolute pathname diff --git a/Lib/tempfile.py b/Lib/tempfile.py index ba04be8f9058e1..770f72c25295cb 100644 --- a/Lib/tempfile.py +++ b/Lib/tempfile.py @@ -308,8 +308,7 @@ def mkstemp(suffix=None, prefix=None, dir=None, text=False): otherwise a default directory is used. If 'text' is specified and true, the file is opened in text - mode. Else (the default) the file is opened in binary mode. On - some operating systems, this makes no difference. + mode. Else (the default) the file is opened in binary mode. If any of 'suffix', 'prefix' and 'dir' are not None, they must be the same type. If they are bytes, the returned name will be bytes; str