From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 19:53:40 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: #14515: clarify that TemporaryDirectory's __enter__ returns the name.
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#14515: clarify that TemporaryDirectory's __enter__ returns the name.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
index 13b6041d04..d78159d64b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
@@ -97,12 +97,14 @@ The module defines the following user-callable items:
    This function creates a temporary directory using :func:`mkdtemp`
    (the supplied arguments are passed directly to the underlying function).
    The resulting object can be used as a context manager (see
-   :ref:`context-managers`).  On completion of the context (or destruction
-   of the temporary directory object), the newly created temporary directory
+   :ref:`context-managers`).  On completion of the context or destruction
+   of the temporary directory object the newly created temporary directory
    and all its contents are removed from the filesystem.
 
-   The directory name can be retrieved from the :attr:`name` attribute
-   of the returned object.
+   The directory name can be retrieved from the :attr:`name` attribute of the
+   returned object.  When the returned object is used as a context manager, the
+   :attr:`name` will be assigned to the target of the :keyword:`as` clause in
+   the :keyword:`with` statement, if there is one.
 
    The directory can be explicitly cleaned up by calling the
    :func:`cleanup` method.