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gh-94543: Improve tempfile.mkstemp documentation about cleanup #154748

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Expand Up @@ -257,7 +257,8 @@ The module defines the following user-callable items:
The file descriptor is :ref:`not inherited by child processes <fd_inheritance>`.

Unlike :func:`TemporaryFile`, the user of :func:`mkstemp` is responsible
for deleting the temporary file when done with it.
for closing the file descriptor (for example, using :func:`os.close`) and
deleting the temporary file (for example, using :func:`os.remove`).

If *suffix* is not ``None``, the file name will end with that suffix,
otherwise there will be no suffix. :func:`mkstemp` does not put a dot
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