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>

diff --git a/Doc/library/tempfile.rst b/Doc/library/tempfile.rst
index 915489fadd401908241aa1f1e171326e6ed76c7b..6bd7d003f5290be94020b6bf7fad1e0ed031e9d6 100644 (file)
--- 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