"Larry Riedel" <la...@riedel.org> wrote
It may not be a good reason, but I like that "open" is preferred, because in Java a "File" object is not a stream for the content in the file, just its directory entry, and simply creating a File object does not open the file at all.
I'm not sure citing anything Java does is a good rationale in Python! Hopefully we can do rather better than the horrors of Java :-)
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