Michael Hudson wrote: > > OTOH, even if we didn't rename str/unicode to text, opentext would > > still be a good name for the function that opens a text file. > > Hnnrgh, not really. You're not opening a 'text', nor are you > constructing something that might reasonably be called an 'opentext'. > textfile() seems better.
except that in Python, file is a type, and open is an action. but I agree that textfile reads better (haven't we been through this a couple of times already, btw? iirc, my original textfile proposal was posted in 1846, or so) </F> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
