Martin Panter added the comment: I think Terry may have had the mkstemp() doc string in mind. The NamedTemporaryFile() doc string already points to that function, and it doesn’t make sense to single NamedTemporaryFile() out above other functions. ---------- nosy: +martin.panter _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18730> _______________________________________