"W W" <sri...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 5:41 AM, spir <denis.s...@free.fr> wrote:
Le Tue, 5 May 2009 00:41:39 +0100,
"Alan Gauld" <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> s'exprima ainsi:
> > Backwards compatibility. The file type was introduced in python 2.2,
> > before which there was open.
>
> And file has been removed again in Python v3....
> In fact open is now an alias for io.open and no longer simply returns
> a file object - in fact the file type itself is gone too!
I, for one, am glad it is gone again. It took awhile to train myself not to
write:
file = open('filename.txt')
and incorrectly shadow the built-in. It's just the most natural name for
the variable :^)
-Mark
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