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The documentation page 
http://docs.python.org/release/2.6.6/library/functions.html?highlight=open#open
describes the open() built-in function as
 open(filename[, mode[, bufsize]])
but the Python interpreter complains:
 Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40) 
 [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2 
 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>> file_descriptor = open(filename='/spam')
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 TypeError: Required argument 'name' (pos 1) not found
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>> file_descriptor = open(name='/spam', bufsize=-1)
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 TypeError: 'bufsize' is an invalid keyword argument for this function
 >>> 
 >>> 
 >>> file_descriptor = open(name='/spam', buffering=-1)
 Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
 IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/spam'
 >>> _
 
So the documentation page should read
 open(name[, mode[, buffering]])
 ---- ---------
instead, note 'name' not 'filename' and 'buffering' not 'bufsize'.
Maybe it's relevant, because Debian/stable still ships with
Python 2.6.6 and I guess the Python 2.7.x documentation has 
the same bug.
The """docstring""" does already reflect that correctly.
PS:
This is my first bug report. I hope I did this right. 
Mercy, please! ;)

The docs are correct in Python3.
The docs for Python2 are not *wrong*, since they indicate only positional parameters and if you use positional parameters it works as documented. (I'm surprised that using keyword arguments works, but I haven't looked at the code.) Fixing the names in the 2.7 docs would still be helpful (2.6 docs don't get updated any more).

New changeset 5da7924c4775 by Ezio Melotti in branch '2.7':
#12642: fix args names in open() doc.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5da7924c4775 

Fixed, thanks for the report!