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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2013-02-09 09:46:42 (GMT)
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2013-02-09 09:46:42 (GMT)
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Issue #17147. Mention BytesIO in SpooledTemporaryFile documentation.
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/tempfile.rst8
-rw-r--r--Lib/tempfile.py4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
index c143b88..b68a412 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
@@ -83,9 +83,11 @@ The module defines the following user-callable items:
causes the file to roll over to an on-disk file regardless of its size.
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. This file-like object can be
- used in a :keyword:`with` statement, just like a normal file.
+ is either a :class:`BytesIO` or :class:`StringIO` object (depending on
+ whether specifies binary or text *mode* was specified) or a true file
+ object, depending on whether :func:`rollover` has been called. This
+ file-like object can be used in a :keyword:`with` statement, just like
+ a normal file.
.. function:: TemporaryDirectory(suffix='', prefix='tmp', dir=None)
diff --git a/Lib/tempfile.py b/Lib/tempfile.py
index b8fc18c..86300b6 100644
--- a/Lib/tempfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tempfile.py
@@ -479,8 +479,8 @@ else:
raise
class SpooledTemporaryFile:
- """Temporary file wrapper, specialized to switch from
- StringIO to a real file when it exceeds a certain size or
+ """Temporary file wrapper, specialized to switch from BytesIO
+ or StringIO to a real file when it exceeds a certain size or
when a fileno is needed.
"""
_rolled = False