summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-05-12 18:05:20 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-05-12 18:05:20 (GMT)
commite6bcc9145e3ecae592dd2e24da5508f34022b920 (patch)
tree407b0d02ac1d4e16d0d30d6b2795d4d1345201d2 /Doc/library/tempfile.rst
parentc73728373c767119271e3813b3f4d182c845a297 (diff)
downloadcpython-e6bcc9145e3ecae592dd2e24da5508f34022b920.zip
cpython-e6bcc9145e3ecae592dd2e24da5508f34022b920.tar.gz
cpython-e6bcc9145e3ecae592dd2e24da5508f34022b920.tar.bz2
Remove many "versionchanged" items that didn't use the official markup,
but just some text embedded in the docs. Also remove paragraph about implicit relative imports from tutorial.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/library/tempfile.rst')
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/tempfile.rst17
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
index 4de9236..7363940 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
@@ -14,14 +14,11 @@
pair: temporary; file
This module generates temporary files and directories. It works on all
-supported platforms.
-
-In version 2.3 of Python, this module was overhauled for enhanced security. It
-now provides three new functions, :func:`NamedTemporaryFile`, :func:`mkstemp`,
-and :func:`mkdtemp`, which should eliminate all remaining need to use the
-insecure :func:`mktemp` function. Temporary file names created by this module
-no longer contain the process ID; instead a string of six random characters is
-used.
+supported platforms. It provides three new functions,
+:func:`NamedTemporaryFile`, :func:`mkstemp`, and :func:`mkdtemp`, which should
+eliminate all remaining need to use the insecure :func:`mktemp` function.
+Temporary file names created by this module no longer contain the process ID;
+instead a string of six random characters is used.
Also, all the user-callable functions now take additional arguments which
allow direct control over the location and name of temporary files. It is
@@ -208,10 +205,6 @@ the appropriate function arguments, instead.
On Windows, the default prefix is :file:`~T`; on all other systems it is
:file:`tmp`.
- Older versions of this module used to require that ``template`` be set to
- ``None`` after a call to :func:`os.fork`; this has not been necessary since
- version 1.5.2.
-
.. function:: gettempprefix()