[Python-Dev] str object going in Py3K (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Feb 15 02:06:17 CET 2006
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Alex Martelli wrote:
What about shorter names, such as 'text' instead of 'opentext' and 'data' instead of 'openbinary'?
Because those words are just names for pieces of data, with nothing to connect them with files or the act of opening a file.
I think the association of "open" with "file" is established strongly enough in programmers' brains that dropping it now would just lead to unnecessary confusion.
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