[Python-Dev] file() or open()? (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Wed Jul 7 18:23:53 CEST 2004 

Guido> Changing things just because a new century has started sounds
Guido> like a fad to me -- IOW the argument "it's the modern thing to
Guido> do" usually doesn't convince me.

Yes, but has others have pointed out, the current documentation seems to suggest that file() is preferred to open(). That appears not to be your intent and should be changed, but I don't think most of us who have begun using file() (I've only changed from open() to file() relatively recently) didn't view it as a fad.

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