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

diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
index 67eda2111fc4575c2b2048d9e01c9680ef1754f6..fa0a27f518f7745fd42fbe428af9c7da5907760a 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@ The module defines the following user-callable functions:
    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 184dfc16e5441e8c1acf7fda39c0a884726e25d1..8a2e9cd875670ad03bdec5f0f4f1669895397171 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/tempfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tempfile.py
@@ -455,8 +455,8 @@ def NamedTemporaryFile(mode='w+b', bufsize=-1, suffix="",
     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.
     """
 
     if dir is None: