diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 6c03472..1261547 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -766,8 +766,9 @@
    Python enforces that the mode, after stripping ``'U'``, begins with ``'r'``,
    ``'w'`` or ``'a'``.
 
-   See also the :mod:`fileinput` module, the :mod:`os` module, and the
-   :mod:`os.path` module.
+   Python provides many file handling modules including
+   :mod:`fileinput`, :mod:`os`, :mod:`os.path`, :mod:`tempfile`, and
+   :mod:`shutil`.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 2.5
       Restriction on first letter of mode string introduced.
diff --git a/Doc/library/os.rst b/Doc/library/os.rst
index a776a6b..3843b53 100644
--- a/Doc/library/os.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/os.rst
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
 :mod:`posix` or :mod:`nt`. If you just want to read or write a file see
 :func:`open`, if you want to manipulate paths, see the :mod:`os.path`
 module, and if you want to read all the lines in all the files on the
-command line see the :mod:`fileinput` module.
+command line see the :mod:`fileinput` module. For creating temporary
+files and directories see the :mod:`tempfile` module, and for high-level
+file and directory handling see the :mod:`shutil` module.
 
 This module searches for an operating system dependent built-in module like
 :mod:`mac` or :mod:`posix` and exports the same functions and data as found
@@ -983,6 +985,9 @@
    ``0777`` (octal).  On some systems, *mode* is ignored.  Where it is used, the
    current umask value is first masked out. Availability: Macintosh, Unix, Windows.
 
+   It is also possible to create temporary directories; see the
+   :mod:`tempfile` module's :func:`tempfile.mkdtemp` function.
+
 
 .. function:: makedirs(path[, mode])
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
index 8cc27d4..0f9b967 100644
--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
 
 The :mod:`shutil` module offers a number of high-level operations on files and
 collections of files.  In particular, functions are provided  which support file
-copying and removal.
+copying and removal. For operations on individual files, see also the
+:mod:`os` module.
 
 .. warning::
    
diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index 2a6a973..046d494 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1846,7 +1846,10 @@
 constructors described in the :ref:`built-in-funcs` section. [#]_ File
 objects are also returned by some other built-in functions and methods,
 such as :func:`os.popen` and :func:`os.fdopen` and the :meth:`makefile`
-method of socket objects.
+method of socket objects. Temporary files can be created using the
+:mod:`tempfile` module, and high-level file operations such as copying,
+moving, and deleting files and directories can be achieved with the
+:mod:`shutil` module.
 
 When a file operation fails for an I/O-related reason, the exception
 :exc:`IOError` is raised.  This includes situations where the operation is not