[Python-Dev] Re: file() or open()?

Wed Jul 7 22:49:33 CEST 2004

I considered more as the action being performed. I'm opening something, 
in this case a file. And now I have an object which has been opened, I 
can perform operations on it, and when I'm done I close it.
Terry Reedy wrote:
>"François Pinard" <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote in message
>news:20040707183033.GA30577 at alcyon.progiciels-bpi.ca...
>>>>I perceived the introduction of `file()' as a nice cleanup in Python.
>>>>>>As a user, so did I. I like the cosistency of using file along with int,
>tuple, list, dict, type, (and did I leave out something), and all user
>classes as constructors of instances of themselves.
>>Terry J. Reedy
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