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authorRishav Kundu <rk@rishav.io>2020-08-14 01:33:14 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-08-14 01:33:14 (GMT)
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bpo-41410: Fix outdated info in mkstemp docs (GH-21701)
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@@ -175,9 +175,8 @@ The module defines the following user-callable items:
If you want to force a bytes return value with otherwise default behavior,
pass ``suffix=b''``.
- If *text* is specified, it indicates whether to open the file in binary
- mode (the default) or text mode. On some platforms, this makes no
- difference.
+ If *text* is specified and true, the file is opened in text mode.
+ Otherwise, (the default) the file is opened in binary mode.
:func:`mkstemp` returns a tuple containing an OS-level handle to an open
file (as would be returned by :func:`os.open`) and the absolute pathname