>> In the old days, it was useful to have fine-grained control over the >> file object because you didn't know where it might fail, and the OS >> didn't necessarily give you give good status codes. So being able to >> step through the entire process was the job of the progammers. > > I don't know what you mean by the "old days", but a couple of decades > ago, there were no such things as "file objects".
My apologies. I used the word "object" when I shouldn't have. > I'm beginning to wonder if you and Dihedral are swapping notes. > Dihedral's been sounding fairly coherent lately. Dihedral... That's my dream-self. Where did you encounter him? heh -- MarkJ Tacoma, Washington -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
