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

Andrew Koenig ark-mlist at att.net
Fri May 18 17:51:58 CEST 2007


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.

+1.

Presumably you can still write to the standard input, output, error, and log files without importing io.

(I'm feeling slightly pedantic today, so I want to say that the proposal doesn't make it any easier to identify modules that engage in I/O -- it makes it easier to identify modules that assuredly do not engage in I/O. +1 anyway.)



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