On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:25:59 +0200
victor.stinner <python-check...@python.org> wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0c49260e85a0
> changeset: 71103:0c49260e85a0
> user: Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com>
> date: Thu Jun 30 23:25:47 2011 +0200
> summary:
> Issue #12451: Add support.create_empty_file()
>
> We don't need to create a temporary buffered binary or text file object just
> to
> create an empty file.
Is there a reason for this?
I find it quite explicit and obvious what the following does:
with open("somefile", "wb"):
pass
so I wonder what replacing it with support.create_empty_file() brings
(except from having to lookup yet another helper function).
Regards
Antoine.
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