Phillip J. Eby wrote: > >but that was made at a time when it wasn't clear if "open" or "file" would > >be the preferred way to open a file. now that we've settled on the verb > >form, I think "textopen" or "opentext" would be slightly more consistent. >> Sorry, I'm confused. Who settled on the verb form? Are you saying Guido's > 2002 post supports open() instead of file(), or is there some more recent > reference to this? see: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/045921.html "I recently saw a checkin that changed a call to open() into a call to file(), suggesting that using file() is more "politically correct" than open(). I'm not sure I agree with this." http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-July/045967.html "Anyway, here's my future-proof distinction: use open() as the factory function, and file for type-testing." </F>