[Python-3000] Radical idea: remove built-in open (require import io) (original) (raw)

Chris Monson shiblon at gmail.com
Fri May 18 02:58:49 CEST 2007

On 5/17/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On 5/17/07, Chris Monson <shiblon at gmail.com> wrote: > Would other IO builtins also move, like (formerly raw) input and > print? What about the file type? The file type is already gone in py3k. > it seems to me that if the rationale is to make use of IO > identifiable, then all IO functions would have to move into the io > module. What am I missing? I guess a refinement of the point is that you need the io module to create new I/O streams, while input() and print() act on existing streams. Code that makes read() and write() calls doesn't need to import the io module either, so we're not really making all I/O identifiable, just the open() calls.

Aha. Of course, now that you say all of that, it seems obvious. :-)

--Guido

> - C > > On 5/17/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > > Do people think it would be too radical if the built-in open() > > function was removed altogether, requiring all code that opens files > > to import the io module first? This would make it easier to identify > > modules that engage in I/O. > > > > -- > > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _> > ________________________ > > Python-3000 mailing list > > Python-3000 at python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > > Unsubscribe: > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/shiblon%40gmail.com > > >

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