New submission from Antti Haapala:
The documentation for NamedTemporaryFile is a bit vague. It says
[--] That name can be retrieved from the name attribute of the file object.
[--] The returned object is always a file-like object whose file
attribute is the underlying true file object. This file-like object can be used
in a with statement, just like a normal file.
That `file-like object` vs `true file object` made me assume that I need to do
f = NamedTemporaryFile()
f.file.name
to get the filename, which sort of worked, but only later realized that
`f.file.name` is actually the file descriptor number on Linux, a.k.a an
integer. Thus I suggest that the one sentence be changed to "That name can be
retrieved from the name attribute of the returned file-like object."
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assignee: docs@python
components: Documentation
messages: 259334
nosy: docs@python, ztane
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: NamedTemporaryFile documentation is vague about the `name` attribute
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