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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/tempfile.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/tempfile.py | 4 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst index 96ead1f..f25730a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst @@ -82,9 +82,11 @@ 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 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. .. versionchanged:: 3.3 the truncate method now accepts a ``size`` argument. diff --git a/Lib/tempfile.py b/Lib/tempfile.py index 0aaee54..0785d80 100644 --- a/Lib/tempfile.py +++ b/Lib/tempfile.py @@ -472,8 +472,8 @@ 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 |