Bugs item #922922, was opened at 2004-03-25 06:06 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=922922&group_id=5470

Category: Python Library Group: Python 2.3 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Michael S. Fischer (otterley) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: tempfile.mkstemp() documentation discrepancy

Initial Comment: The documentation for tempfile.mkstemp() at http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.3/lib/module- tempfile.html (as well as the ActivePython documentation that ships with the Windows 2.3 build) says:

"mkstemp() returns a tuple containing an OS-level handle to an open file (as would be returned by os.open ()) and the absolute pathname of that file, in that order."

However, whenever I use it, it returns a tuple containing an integer (presumably the file descriptor) and the absolute pathname of the tempfile. No file handle is returned.

Sure enough, the in-line documentation states:

"The return value is a pair (fd, name) where fd is the file descriptor returned by os.open, and name is the filename."

Could someone please correct this discrepancy?

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