[Python-Dev] str object going in Py3K (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Feb 14 23:48:57 CET 2006

On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 14:37 -0800, Alex Martelli wrote:

What about shorter names, such as 'text' instead of 'opentext' and 'data' instead of 'openbinary'? By eschewing the 'open' prefix we might make it easy to eventually migrate off it. Maybe text and data could be two subclasses of file, with file remaining initially as it is (and perhaps becoming an abstract-only baseclass at the time 'open' is deprecated).

I was actually thinking about static methods file.text() and file.data() which seem nicely self descriptive, if a little bit longer.

-Barry

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