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

Brett C. bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Wed Jul 7 23:11:51 CEST 2004


Guido van Rossum wrote:

[SNIP]

In the future, I could see open() become a factory function again that could return an instance of a different class depending on the mode argument, the default encoding for files, or who knows what; but file will always remain a class.

How is this case different from the whole unicode.encode thread and the worry of having different types of objects returned based on the argument? I would assume that any objects returned would follow the file interface roughly.

-Brett



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