On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do, although I'm hesitant, because this only applies when mode == > 'w', and open has a large and growing list of parameters.
True, but keyword arguments don't cost much complexity. open(file, mode='r', buffering=-1, encoding=None, errors=None, newline=None, closefd=True) I don't think this would be hurt by another parameter, since most of them will be happily ignored by most calls. It's not like opening files in assembly language under OS/2, where it takes thirteen pushes for each call (arguments on the stack, make sure you push them in the right order, don't forget that pointers require a segment and an offset and make sure they're the right way around). File handling IS complex, so it stands to reason that the file-open function should carry that complexity. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
