on 16.02.2006 06:59 Alex Martelli said the following: > On Feb 15, 2006, at 9:51 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > >> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 09:17 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: >> >>> Regarding open vs. opentext, I'm still not sure. I don't want to >>> generalize from the openbytes precedent to openstr or openunicode >>> (especially since the former is wrong in 2.x and the latter is wrong >>> in 3.0). I'm tempting to hold out for open() since it's most >>> compatible. >> If we go with two functions, I'd much rather hang them off of the file >> type object then add two new builtins. I really do think file.bytes() >> and file.text() (a.k.a. open.bytes() and open.text()) is better than >> opentext() or openbytes(). > > I agree, or, MAL's idea of bytes.open() and unicode.open() is also > good. My fondest dream is that we do NOT have an 'open' builtin > which has proven to be very error-prone when used in Windows by > newbies (as evidenced by beginner errors as seen on c.l.py, the > python-help lists, and other venues) -- defaulting 'open' to text is > errorprone, defaulting it to binary doesn't seem the greatest idea > either, principle "when in doubt, resist the temptation to guess" > strongly suggests not having 'open' as a built-in at all. (And > namemangling into openthis and openthat seems less Pythonic to me > than exploiting namespaces by making structured names, either > this.open and that.open or open.this and open.that). IOW, I entirely > agree with Barry and Marc Andre. >
`open`ing a file, i.e. constructing a `file` object, always requires a path argument. In case that Py3k manages to incorporate a `Path` object, I could be more natural to have `.openbytes` and `.opentext` as methods on Path objects. But `bytes.open` and `text/unicode/str.open` looks nice too. Just for the record, stefan _______________________________________________ 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
