Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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.

Cheers,
mwh

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