Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Many reasons. 1. It is simpler. 2. We will need a try/except in any case to prevent a leak if an exception be raised by other code following open(). 3. It matches the behavior of io.open(). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38971> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
