[Python-Dev] outstanding items for 2.5 (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Apr 4 22:34:38 CEST 2006

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Done. What exactly do you plan to do apart from editing the docs to steer people away from file()?

For the initial checkin, the dirt-simple:

def open(filename, *args, **kwargs): return file(filename, *args, **kwargs)

At this point, the sole purpose is to kill open() as a simple alias for file() and turn it into a factory function that can be documented separately (and have its own help() info). Further extensions can be done later. Because this is file I/O, there is no reason to even think of performance improvements in the call.

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