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r60679 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-09 02:18:42 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Make ABC containers inherit as documented.
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r60684 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-09 04:34:52 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Merge with r60683.
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r60687 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-09 05:37:49 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Add -3 warnings that set.copy(), dict.copy(), and defaultdict.copy() will go away in Py3.x
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r60689 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-09 11:04:19 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Metaclass declaration is inherited
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r60691 | raymond.hettinger | 2008-02-09 11:06:20 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Temporarily disable this test. It's been broken for a week.
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r60695 | nick.coghlan | 2008-02-09 16:28:09 +0100 (Sat, 09 Feb 2008) | 1 line
Issue 2021: Allow NamedTemporaryFile and SpooledTemporaryFile to be used as context managers. (The NamedTemporaryFile fix should be considered for backporting to 2.5)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
index e38dbab..cc3318f 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@
The returned object is a true file object on POSIX platforms. On other
platforms, it is a file-like object whose :attr:`file` attribute is the
- underlying true file object.
+ underlying true file object. This file-like object can be used in a :keyword:`with`
+ statement, just like a normal file.
.. function:: NamedTemporaryFile([mode='w+b'[, bufsize=-1[, suffix[, prefix[, dir[, delete]]]]]])
@@ -64,7 +65,8 @@
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 deleted as soon as it is closed.
The returned object is always a file-like object whose :attr:`file` attribute
- is the underlying true file object.
+ is the underlying true file object. This file-like object can be used in a :keyword:`with`
+ statement, just like a normal file.
.. function:: SpooledTemporaryFile([max_size=0, [mode='w+b'[, bufsize=-1[, suffix[, prefix[, dir]]]]]])
@@ -79,7 +81,8 @@
The returned object is a file-like object whose :attr:`_file` attribute
is either a :class:`StringIO` object or a true file object, depending on
- whether :func:`rollover` has been called.
+ whether :func:`rollover` has been called. This file-like object can be used in a
+ :keyword:`with` statement, just like a normal file.
.. function:: mkstemp([suffix[, prefix[, dir[, text]]]])