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On 7/7/06, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

> What would the signature of the file constructor be in that case?

If it's possible to call it at all, I think it would
have to take a file descriptor, or whatever the
platform's OS-level representation of an open file

is.

The other possibility is to just raise an exception
if you call file() from Python code.

I am going with raising an exception.

-Brett