BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > * Functions for reading and writing a whole file - better handled > by file objects read() and write() methods.
I would be disappointed to see this left out, because I get really tired of this little dance: f = open(filename) c = f.read() f.close() return c Then you can put a try:finally: in there too for extra correctness. Anyway, I write this code all the time, and it's really tiresome. open(filename).read() also works, but relies on Python's reference counting to be really reliable; maybe I shouldn't worry about that and use just that form. But that bothers me too. The same occurs during writing. The original Path object has a bytes and text method (I think), which nicely distinguishes between the two cases. This helps suggest better and more explicit handling of unicode, something that Python should work harder at making clear. -- Ian Bicking / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ 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
