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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:30:31 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: bpo-34429: Noted TemporaryFile behavior on non-Posix/non-Cygwin systems (GH-31547)
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bpo-34429: Noted TemporaryFile behavior on non-Posix/non-Cygwin systems (GH-31547)

(cherry picked from commit 53ecf9e08d35801807daf74492c090a325f995b7)

Co-authored-by: slateny <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
index b8a5fa0027ff..6b23a1bcd630 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ The module defines the following user-callable items:
    The :py:data:`os.O_TMPFILE` flag is used if it is available and works
    (Linux-specific, requires Linux kernel 3.11 or later).
 
+   On platforms that are neither Posix nor Cygwin, TemporaryFile is an alias
+   for NamedTemporaryFile.
+
    .. audit-event:: tempfile.mkstemp fullpath tempfile.TemporaryFile
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.5