R. David Murray added the comment:

Well, something is wrong, because if we are deprecating :data:`tmpdir` we 
shouldn't be cross referencing it from the non-deprecated docs.  The 
explanation of how the default value is calculated should be moved up to 
gettmpdir.

My understanding is that now that all functions accept a 'dir' parameter, the 
tmpdir global was deprecated because global state is bad, and if an application 
really wants to affect the global state it can use the one of the environment 
variables that are checked, which is more flexible.

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