Alex Martelli wrote: > What about shorter names, such as 'text' instead of 'opentext' and > 'data' instead of 'openbinary'?
Because those words are just names for pieces of data, with nothing to connect them with files or the act of opening a file. I think the association of "open" with "file" is established strongly enough in programmers' brains that dropping it now would just lead to unnecessary confusion. -- Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | Carpe post meridiam! | Christchurch, New Zealand | (I'm not a morning person.) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] +--------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ 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
